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“The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven.”
“There is nothing either good or bad except that thinking makes it so.”
Think Big and you’ll live big. You’ll live big in happiness. You’ll live big in accomplishment. Big in income. Big in friends. Big in respect.
“Life is too short to be little.”
faith can move mountains.
“Okay-I’ll-give-it-a-try-but-I-don’t-think-it-will-work” attitude produces failures.
Disbelief is negative power. When the mind disbelieves or doubts, the mind attracts “reasons” to support the disbelief. Doubt, disbelief, the subconscious will to fail, the not really wanting to succeed, is responsible for most failures.
Think doubt and fail. Think victory...
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A person is a product of his own thoughts. Believe Big. Adjust your thermostat forward. Launch your success offensive with honest, sincere belief that you can succeed. Believe big and grow big.
why you can, why you’re qualified, why you will.
Step One: Believe in yourself, believe you can succeed.
Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not supermen. Success does not require a superintellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success isn’t based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never—yes, never—sell yourself short.
Believe Big. The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief. Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success. Remember this, too! Big ideas and big plans are often easier—certainly no more difficult—than small ideas and small plans.
“Why will people gladly accept what one person tells them but ignore another person who tells them the same thing?”
But the fellow who has gone nowhere and has no plans for getting anywhere always has a bookful of reasons to explain why.
Persons with mediocre accomplishments are quick to explain why they haven’t, why they don’t, why they can’t, and why they aren’t.
Like any disease, excusitis gets worse if it isn’t treated properly.
What can I use as an alibi that will help me save face? Let’s see: poor health? lack of education? too old? too young? bad luck? personal misfortune? the way my family brought me up?”
Thoughts, positive or negative, grow stronger when fertilized with constant repetition.
Dr. Schindler’s great book, How to Live 365 Days a Year.
this book that three out of every four hospital beds are occupied by people who have EIL—Emotionally Induced Illness.
live until I die and I’m not going to get life and death confused.
Every minute a person spends worrying about dying is just one minute that fellow might as well have been dead.”
The right attitude and one arm will beat the wrong attitude and two arms every time.
“I felt sorry for myself because I had ragged shoes until I met a man who had no feet.”
Instead of complaining about “not feeling good,” it’s far better to be glad you are as healthy as you are.
Just being grateful for the health you have is powerful vaccinati...
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Most of us make two basic errors with respect to intelligence:
What really matters is not how much intelligence you have but how you use what you do have. The thinking that guides your intelligence is much more important than the quantity of your brainpower.
the thinking that guides your intelligence is much more important than how much intelligence you may have.
Interest, enthusiasm, is the critical factor
For stickability is 95 percent of ability.
He has the brains to be a tremendous success, but not the thought power.
Remember, the thinking that guides your intelligence is much more important than how much intelligence you have. Not even a Ph.D. degree can override this basic success principle!
We can’t do much to change the amount of native ability, but we can certainly change the way we use what we have.
Knowledge is power-when you use it constructively.
