Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.
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The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
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Action is the real measure of intelligence.
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Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.
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No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.
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War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
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If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle...
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.