Any person who recognizes this greatest power... the power to choose. Begins to realize that he is the one that is doing the choosing and that friends, although they mean well, cannot do his choosing for him, nor can his relatives. Consequently, he develops real self-confidence based upon his own ability, upon his own action, and upon his own initiative.
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There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability.
It is the ability to recognize ability.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability.
It is the ability to recognize ability.
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born read more
The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age. He can only get a vision of the unselfish forces in the world by appealing to them, and every appeal is a call to arms. If he fights he must fight, not one man, but a conspiracy. He is always at war with a civilization. On his side is proverbial philosophy, a galaxy of invisible saints and sages, and the half-developed consciousness and professions of everybody. Against him is the world, and every selfish passion in his own heart.
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is read more
Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.
Mistakes show us what we need to learn.
Mistakes show us what we need to learn.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and
enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and
enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass.
An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected.".
An act of God was defined as "something which no reasonable man could have expected.".
It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but read more
It is an article of faith in my creed to pick the man who does not take himself seriously, but does take his work seriously.
The awakening has begun!.
The awakening has begun!.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
