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- "A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a ..."
- "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 ..."
- "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. "
- "Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating ..."
- "All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; ..."
- "An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all ..."
- "An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation. "
- "As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, ..."
- "Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step ..."
- "Begin to be now what you will be hereafter. "
- "Belief creates the actual fact. "
- "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. "
- "Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. ..."
- "Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake. "
- "Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making ..."
- "Do every day or two something for no other reason than you would rather not ..."
- "Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so ..."
- "Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month ..."
- "Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just ..."
- "Everyone knows that on any given day there are energies slumbering in him which the ..."
- "Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible. "
- "Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. "
- "Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we ..."
- "How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most ..."
- "Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. "
- "I will act as if what I do makes a difference. "
- "If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick. "
- "If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. "
- "If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door. "
- "If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or ..."
- "If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. "
- "If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait. "
- "In business for yourself, not by yourself. "
- "Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of ..."
- "Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver. "
- "It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live ..."
- "It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything ..."
- "It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of ..."
- "It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. "
- "Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its ..."
- "Man can alter his life by altering his thinking. "
- "Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got ..."
- "No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how ..."
- "Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task. "
- "Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on ..."
- "One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours ..."
- "Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are ..."
- "Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost ..."
- "Our faith is faith in someone else's faith, and in the greatest matters this is ..."
- "Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type ..."
- "Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects in the phenomenal world. "
- "Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though ..."
- "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. "
- "The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man ..."
- "The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the ..."
- "The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. "
- "The essence of genius is to know what to overlook. "
- "The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease. "
- "The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God ..."