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When you do not know what to do or which way to turn, smile. This will relax your mind and let the sunshine of happiness into your soul.
Any man is educated who knows where to get knowledge when he needs it, and how to organize that knowledge into definite plans of action.
Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.
What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it "temporary defeat.
Success in life depends upon happiness, and happiness is found in no other way than through SERVICE that is rendered in a spirit of love.
The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.
Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.
The majority of people who fail to accumulate money sufficient for their needs are, generally, easily influenced by the opinion of others.
When you are able to maintain your own highest standards of integrity - regardless of what others may do - you are destined for greatness.
Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.
If you believe yourself unfortunate because you have loved and lost, perish the thought. One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely.
Who told you it couldn't be done? And what great achievement has he to his credit that entitles him to use the word 'impossible' so freely?
Success comes to those who become success conscious. Failure comes to those who indifferently allow themselves to become failure conscious.
Your mental attitude gives your entire personality a drawing power that attracts the circumstances, things and people you think about most!
Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.
You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.
The most practical of all methods for controlling the mind is the habit of keeping it busy with a definite purpose, backed by a definite plan.
Positive mental attitude is the right mental attitude in all circumstances. Success attracts more success while failure attracts more failure.
Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people.
The one and only thing over which you have complete and total control is how you focus your own mind. Luckily, this determines everything else.
It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.
Our success depends very largely upon how well we negotiate our way through our daily contacts with other people without friction or opposition.
Celebrate your success and stand strong when adversity hits, for when the storm clouds come in, the eagles soar while the small birds take cover.
Success is very largely a matter of adjusting one's self to the ever-varying and changing environments of life, in a spirit of harmony and poise.
When riches begin to come they come so quickly, in such great abundance, that one wonders where they have been hiding during all those lean years.
The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony.
If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. Don't wait for great opportunities. Seize common, everyday ones and make them great.
The persistent man with a poor plan stands a better chance of winning than the man with a perfect plan who hesitates and waivers in carrying it out.
Knowledge is only potential power. It becomes power only when, and if, it is organized into definite plans of action, and directed to a definite end.
Perhaps we shall learn, as we pass through this age, that the 'other self" is more powerful than the physical self we see when we look into a mirror.
Taking possession of your positive self will put you on the success beam that you may ride triumphantly to whatever heights of achievement you desire.
If you think you are beaten you are, if you think you dare not, you don't. If you like to win, but you think you can't, it is almost certain you won't.
The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief.
Conceit is a fog that envelops a man's real character beyond his own recognition. It weakens his native ability and strengthens all his inconsistencies .
The great master key to riches is nothing more or less than the self-discipline necessary to help you take full and complete possession of your own mind.
If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it,therefore, you will readily recognize the other half the moment it reaches your mind.
When you begin to think and grow rich, you will observe that riches begin with a state of mind, with definiteness of purpose, with little or no hard work.
Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis.
Who said it could not be done? And tell me what great victories does he have to his credit which qualifies him to judge what can and can't be accomplished.
You have a tremendous advantage over the man who does you an injury: You have it within your power to forgive him, while he has no such advantage over you.
Never, in the history of the world, has there been such abundant opportunity as there is now for the person who is willing to serve before trying to collect.
You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
It is well worth remembering that the customer is the most important factor in any business. If you don't think so, try getting along without him for a while.
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. Thoughts are things! Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement.
No man can become a great leader of men unless he has the milk of human kindness in his own heart, and leads by suggestion and kindness, rather than by force.
The person who sows a single beautiful thought in the mind of another, renders the world a greater service than that rendered by all the faultfinders combined.
Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.
Seek the counsel of men who will tell you the truth about yourself, even if it hurts you to hear it. Mere commendation will not bring the improvement you need.
One of the blessings of maturity is that it sometimes brings one greater courage to be truthful, regardless of what those who do not understand may think or say