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Cast down your bucket where you are.
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Be determined to get up, to reach the highest goal you have in view, and you will.
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To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.
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A man's troubles are always half disposed of, when he finds endurance his only remedy.
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Each halt in his progress has been but a pause before a mighty leap forward.
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Do not then vainly imagine that you can obtain the heavenly possessions without making an effort.
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Idleness and a strong will cannot go together, and procrastination is a total barrier to the acquisition of purposeful action.
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There are a thousand other instances in which application has conquered all obstacles, and proved that nothing which the mind has set itself to endure is difficult.
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This habit of putting off until tomorrow that which you should have done last week or last year or a score of years ago is gnawing at the very vitals of your being, and you can accomplish nothing until you throw it off.
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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.
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No tyranny of circumstances can permanently imprison a determined will.
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Genius unexecuted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
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Many of us imprison ourselves in the narrow limited poverty thought, and then, like caged eagles trying in vain to get free, we beat out our wings against the bars we have ourselves put up.
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All our limitations are in our own minds, the supply is there waiting in vast abundance.
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Do not brood over the past, or dream of the future, but seize the instant and get your lesson from the hour.
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The present time is the raw material out of which we make whatever we will.
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If you want to change the world get over being a sugar cookie and keep moving forward.
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If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.
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If you make your bed every morning you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride, and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another.
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Start each day with a task completed. Find someone to help you through life. Respect everyone.
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Excitements, ideas, and efforts, in a word, are what carry us over the dam.