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Back of all achievement, back of all self-control, back of all thought control, is that magic something called DESIRE!
When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.
“I wish to be of service to my fellow men as I journey through life. To do this I have adopted this creed as a guide to be followed in dealing with my fellow-beings: “To train myself so that never, under any circumstances, will I find fault with any person, no matter how much I may disagree with him or how inferior his work may be, as long as I know he is sincerely trying to do his best. “To respect my country, my profession and myself. To be honest and fair with my fellow men, as I expect them to be honest and fair with me. To be a loyal citizen of my country. To speak of it with praise, and
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People of wisdom, who know what they want and are bent on getting it, guard their conversation carefully. There can be no gain from a volume of uninvited, uncontrolled, loosely spoken words.
It is nearly always more profitable to listen than it is to speak.
“Taking the conversation away from another person” is a common form of lack of self-control which is not only discourteous, but it deprives those who do it of many valuable opportunities to learn from others.
self-control was the most important of the Fifteen Laws of Success.
The man who exercises complete self-control cannot be permanently defeated,
for the reason that obstacles and opposition have a way of melting away when confronted by the determined mind that is guided to a definite end with complete self-control.
I did not pick and choose; I took what came and did it in the best way I knew how; and when I didn’t like what I was doing I still did it well while I was doing it, but I saw to it that I didn’t do it any longer than I had to do it.
always as a condition to work out of, not to stay in.
Among other laws which are available to the person who exercises self-control is the Law of Retaliation.
He means the law of reciprocity here.
“return like for like,”
On the other hand, if I do you a favor you will reciprocate even in greater measure if possible.
The man who attracts you to him through his pleasing personality is merely making use of the Law of Harmonious Attraction, or the Law of Retaliation, both of which, when analyzed, mean that “like attracts like.”
When you have mastered this simple law and learned how to use it you will have learned all that can be learned about salesmanship.
a person presents us with a gift we never feel satisfied until we have “retaliated” with something as good or better than that which we received.
Yes, “to him that hath shall be given!” If he “hath” failure, lack of self-confidence, hatred or lack of self-control, to him shall these qualities be given in still greater abundance! But, if he “hath” success, self-confidence, self-control, patience, persistence and determination, to him shall these qualities be increased!
We have learned that our thoughts and actions toward others resemble an electric magnet which attracts to us the same sort of thought and the same sort of action that we, ourselves, create.
We have learned that “like attracts like,” whether in thought or in expression of thought through bodily action.
We have not learned what the Law of Retaliation is, but we have learned how it works and what it will do; therefore, it only remains for us to make intelligent use of this great principle.
Nothing is permanent except change.
New friends are constantly replacing the old.
Everything is in a state of flux.
The law of evolution is always and everywhere at work, changing, tearing down and rebuilding every material element on this earth and throughout the universe.
New faces will have made their appearance. The old faces will have changed. New buildings will have taken the place of the old. Everything will appear differently because everything will be different.
TIME gives the law of evolution a chance to expand your mind so it can see and understand more.
Work which one does merely for the sake of earning a living is seldom liked.
A man is most efficient and will more quickly and easily succeed when engaged in work that he loves, or work that he performs in behalf of some person whom he loves.
labor performed in a spirit of love for the sake of the labor, itself, never has been and never will be lost.
This would have saved me much grief and an almost endless amount of criticism, but it would have wrecked the hopes of a life-time, and in the end I would in all probability have lost, also, the finest and most desirable of all things, HAPPINESS!
“God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform!”
THE PHILOSOPHY OF SUCCESS, CREATED AND BROADCASTED BY A MAN WHO WAS OBVIOUSLY A FAILURE!
no abuse of confidences to enumerate here a few of the events which show that no labor of love is ever performed at a total loss,
First: By establishing a reputation as being a person who always renders more service and better service than that for which you are paid, you will benefit by comparison with those around you who do not render such service, and the contrast will be so noticeable that there will be keen competition for your services, no matter what your life-work may be.
Out of resistance comes strength.
The strongest oak tree of the forest
is the one that stands in the open, where it is compelled to strug...
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through the operation of one of Nature’s unvarying laws that struggle and resistance develop strength,
The Law of Increasing Returns!
although quite a few seem not to have learned this great truth, judging by the number who spend all of their efforts either trying to get something for nothing,
He is putting himself ahead in the world by first helping others to get ahead.”
Thus the Law of Compensation gave back to me, and with compound interest added, that which I had lost by rendering service to those who were dishonest.
One of the most essential yet the hardest truths that I have had to learn, is that every person should be his own hardest task-master.
When he asked me to tell him frankly what “criticism” I had to offer of the book, what he really meant was that I should tell him what I saw in the book that I could “compliment.”
life, itself, is just one long series of mastery of difficulties and obstacles.
It is an unvarying law that strength grows out of resistance.
“Give the people the best product at the lowest price possible.”
Why do you not reverse your philosophy and give in order that you may get?
Knowledge becomes POWER only through organization and USE! Do not forget this.
