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The brain can be trained, as the hand and eye can be trained; it can be made as obedient as a sporting dog, and by similar methods.
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There are but two directions in this life in which you can grow; backward or forward.
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We cannot get upon our feet, as a people, until we learn the saving habit; until we learn to save every nickel, every dime and every dollar that we can spare.
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The men you see spending most of their time looking for higher and more lucrative positions are, nine times out of ten, men who have made worthless failures in other places.
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Any one can seek a job, but it requires a person of rare ability to create a job.
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In brief, whatever you want, produce that something in yourself, and you will positively gravitate towards the corresponding conditions in the external world.
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So get out there. Give it everything you’ve got—whether it’s your time, your talent, your prayers, or your treasure.
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To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.
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For us who Nurse, our Nursing is a thing, which, unless in it we are making progress every year, every month, every week, take my word for it we are going back.
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Once awakened by the silver trump of knowledge, my spirit was roused to eternal wakefulness.
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if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours
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To grow in self-control, in patience, in equanimity, is to grow in strength and power; and you can only thus grow by focusing your consciousness upon a principle.
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Reverie is a loose dreaming into which a man falls; meditation is a strong, purposeful thinking into which a man rises.
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If he is perplexed, unhappy, restless, or wretched, let him look to himself, for there and nowhere else is the source of all his trouble.
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Great men, I say, often rejoice at crosses of fortune just as brave soldiers do at wars.
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Discourse no more of what a good man should be; but be one.
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The world does not count races and nations that have nothing.
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What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys' schooling interfere with their education!
Wrongly attributed
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education is one of the most-quoted lines attributed to Mark Twain and appears nowhere in his published work, letters or notebooks. The idea's earliest known appearance in this form is Grant Allen's, in 1894. Twain was alive and famous; the sentence was simply reassigned to him afterwards, as hundreds of others have been.
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We do our best when our destinations are beyond the “measurement,” when our reach continually exceeds our grasp, when we have immortal finish lines.
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The greatest snipers and marksmen in the world don’t aim at the target, they aim on the other side of it.
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The race is never over. The journey has no port. The adventure never ends because we are always on our way.
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Men who are successful always seek the company of others who are successful, while men who are on the ragged side of life always seek the company of those who are in similar circumstances.
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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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Great men never wait for opportunities; they make them.
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It is continuity of purpose alone that achieves results.