The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that bit, but steadily building, steadily building.
Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated.
See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.
You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.
Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.
The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor...
The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing.
Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing...
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginning.
If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.
One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.
If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
All motion is cyclic. It circulates to the limits of its possibilities and then returns to its starting point.
It sometimes seems that we have only to solve a thing greatly to get it.
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