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“Resolve that whatever you do, you will bring the whole man to it; that you will fling the whole weight of your being into it.”

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Book:An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success
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“Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.”

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Book:Exceptional Employee
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“The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.”

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“People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others so them, but always a little better. They always pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the quality of life's work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that conquers the heights of excellence.”

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Book:Do It to a Finish!
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“Let your air be that of a winner, a man who is resolved to make his way in the world, to make himself stand for something.”

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Book:Prosperity – How to Attract It (Unabridged): Living a Life of Financial Freedom, Conquer Debt, Increase Income and Maximize Wealth - How to Bring Out the Man You Can Be
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“Who can estimate the real wealth that inheres in a fine character. . . . How base and mean money and huge estates look in comparison. All other things fade before it. Its touch is like magic to win friendship, influence, power. Can you afford to chill, to discourage, to crush out of your life this sweet, sensitive plant, which would flower in your nature and give added glory to your life, for the sake of a few dollars, a little questionable fame?”

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“Mirth is God's medicine; everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all the rust of life- ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth.”

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“It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as hard, if not harder, than day laborers; and that the most obvious reason why they have been superior to other men is that they have taken more pains than other men.”

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Book:The Optimistic Life
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“The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.”

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“Concentrate . . . for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul.”

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“Many mothers make the mistake of forever looking for the bad in the child, trying to . . . uproot and drive it out. This is like trying to eject the darkness from a room without opening the shutters and letting in the light. As John Newton said, 'I cannot sweep the darkness out, but I can shine it out.'”

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Book:The Miracle of Right Thought
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“Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.”

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Book:Pushing to the Front: Or Success Under Difficulties, a Book of Inspiration and Encouragement to All who are Struggling for Self-elevation Along the Paths of Knowledge and of Duty
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“It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.”

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Book:An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success
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“Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.”

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Book:Pushing to the Front: Or Success Under Difficulties, a Book of Inspiration and Encouragement to All who are Struggling for Self-elevation Along the Paths of Knowledge and of Duty
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“We cannot separate our lives from time. Why is it that we are so extravagant, so thoughtless, in our waste of time, especially in youth, when we cling so tenaciously to life? You cannot separate a wasted hour from the same duration of your life. If you waste your time, you must waste your life. If you improve your time, you cannot help improving your life.”

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“It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.”

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Book:An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success
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“Life is not mean, it is grand; if it is mean to any, he or she makes it so. God made it glorious. It is paved with diamonds; its banks he fringed with flowers. He overarched it with stars. Around it He spread the glory of the physical universe-suns, moon, worlds, constellations, systems-all that is magnificent in motion, sublime in magnitude, and grand in order and obedience. God would not have attended life with this broad march of grandeur if it did not mean something.”

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“Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.”

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