Go-at-it-iveness is the first requisite for success. Stick-to-it-iveness is the second.
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When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.
Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.
Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose great and achievement greater!
There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.
What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.
The man who is mentally expanding, who is constantly growing larger and becoming broader, fuller, completer, does not age nearly as rapidly as the man who has ceased to grow.
Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
We don't necessarily get what we work for; it is what we expect that comes to us.
Whatever you do, don't discourage your dreaming propensity. Your heart's desires are not empty vaporings. They foreshadow possible realities. Man was made to aspire, to look upward.
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