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• "No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better."

• "The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes."

• "Begin to be now what you will be hereafter."

• "How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure."

• "Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake."

• "If you want a quality, act as if you already had it."

• "Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."

• "If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system."

• "Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the incitement's of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. The human individual usually lives far within his limits."

• "Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not."

• "Do every day or two something for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test."

• "Belief creates the actual fact."

  
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• "Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf."

• "Man can alter his life by altering his thinking."

• "Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings."

• "Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results."

• "Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects in the phenomenal world."

• "Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."

• "Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task."

• "There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation."

• "Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing."

• "A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain."

• "A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices."

• "A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him."

• "Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune."

• "An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation."

• "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."

• "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."

• "An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible."

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