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“I want you to think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You and I and everyone else are like this hourglass.”

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

“If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”

“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.”

“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.”

“It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.”

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”

“The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.”

“Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.”

“Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.”

“There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.”

“Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.”

“Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.”

“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”