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The major evil the student is requested to avoid is that of forming opinions without definite FACTS as the basis,
“There is a principle which is a bar against all information; which is proof against all argument; and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance. This principle is contempt prior to examination.”
the Law of the Master Mind is the basis of practically all of the more important achievements resulting from group or co-operative effort.
Success is the development of the power with which to get whatever one wants in life without interfering with the rights of others.
Power is organized energy or effort.
No one person in this group is the master mind of which I speak, but the sum total of the minds in the group, co-ordinated, organized and directed to a definite end in a spirit of harmonious co-operation is the power that got my money for me. No two minds in the group are exactly alike, but each man in the group does the thing that he is supposed to do and he does it better than any other person in the world could do it.”
–that sort of power which you may have when you shall have organized the faculties of your own mind and allied yourself with other well organized minds for the attainment of a definite chief aim in life.
“I never knew a man with so much imagination, lively intelligence and instinctive comprehension. You sensed that he probed your thoughts and took stock of everything that you had ever done or might do.
“But his outstanding quality, from so rich an endowment, was the power of inspiring other men. Confidence radiated from him.
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for it shows that success is solely a matter of correctly applying laws and principles which are available to all;
(By the term “failure” is meant that they had failed to find happiness and the ordinary necessities of life without struggle
the five per cent constituting the successful ones not only had purposes that were definite,
the five per cent constituting the successful ones were doing that which they liked best.
Any definite chief aim that is deliberately fixed in the mind and held there, with the determination to realize it, finally saturates the entire subconscious mind until it automatically influences the physical action of the body toward the attainment of that purpose.
Be sure that your definite purpose is constructive; that its attainment will bring hardship and misery to no one; that it will bring you peace and prosperity, then apply, to the limit of your understanding, the principle of self-suggestion for the speedy attainment of this purpose.
The subconscious mind may be likened to a magnet, and when it has been vitalized and thoroughly saturated with any definite purpose it has a decided tendency to attract all that is necessary for the fulfillment of that purpose. Like attracts like, and you may see evidence of this law in every blade of grass and every growing tree. The acorn attracts from the soil and the air the necessary materials out of which to grow an oak tree.
That you will attract to you people who harmonize with your own philosophy of life, whether you wish it or not.
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The man who labors without a definite purpose that is backed up by a definite plan for its attainment, resembles the ship that has lost its rudder. Hard labor and good intentions are not sufficient to carry a man through to success,
Every well-built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.
Yet had you ever stopped to think that most people finish school, take up employment or enter a trade or profession without the slightest conception of anything that even remotely resembles a definite purpose or a definite plan?
Until a man selects a definite purpose in life he dissipates his energies and spreads his thoughts over so many subjects and in so many different directions that they lead not to power, but to indecision and weakness.
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It is a fact that the majority of a man’s griefs come about through lack of self-control.
most of the great truths of life are wrapped up in the ordinary, commonplace events of every-day life.)
It taught me that no man can control others unless he first controls himself.
“Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad.”
Men who control themselves usually boss the job, no matter what it may be.
A person with well-developed self-control does not indulge in hatred, envy, jealousy, fear, revenge, or any similar destructive emotions.
A person with well-developed self-control does not go into ecstasies or become ungovernably enthusiastic over anything or anybody.
You owe it to yourself not to permit your emotions to place your happiness in the keeping of another person.
Love is essential for happiness, but the person who loves so deeply that his or her happiness is placed entirely in the hands of another, resembles
the canary bird that persisted in playing with the cat’s whiskers.
person with well-developed self-control will not permit himself to be influenced by the cynic or the pessimist;
A person with well-developed self-control will never, under any circumstances, slander another person
A person with self-control will
endeavor to understand the reason for their disagreement, and profit by it.
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you have the power to control your thoughts and make them do your bidding!
it generates or sets into motion the mysterious energy called thought.
We read the daily papers as though every word were based upon fact. We are swayed by the gossip and idle chatter of others as though every word were true.
Thought is the only thing over which you have absolute control,
Self-control is solely a matter of thought-control!
A master salesman is one who takes the offensive, and never the defensive side of an argument, if argument arises.
The word “salesman” has reference to all people who try to persuade or convince others by logical argument or appeal to self-interest. We are all salesmen; or, at least, we should be, no matter what form of service we are rendering or what sort of goods we are offering.
The ability to negotiate with other people without friction and argument is the outstanding quality of all successful people.
There is something about the tone of his voice, the posture of his body, and the expression on his face which causes his opponent to suffer by comparison.
And all of this is predicated upon self-control! And self-control is the result of thought-control!
Deliberately place in your own mind the sort of thoughts that you desire there, and keep out of your mind those thoughts which others place there through suggestion, and you will become a person of self-control.
