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To be swayed by your fluctuating thoughts and impulses is to be weak and powerless; to rightly control and direct those forces is to be strong and powerful.
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Give scrupulous attention to the duty of the present moment.
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To be able to do a thing, you must begin to do it, and keep on doing it until the thing is mastered.
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Those who are not prepared for the apprehension of a great purpose should fix the thoughts upon the faultless performance of their duty, no matter how insignificant their task may appear.
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He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it.
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The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream.
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Cease your complaining and fretting; none of these things which you blame are the cause of your poverty; the cause is within yourself, and where the cause is, there is the remedy.
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Do not then vainly imagine that you can obtain the heavenly possessions without making an effort.
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Idleness and a strong will cannot go together, and procrastination is a total barrier to the acquisition of purposeful action.
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Man is a thought-being, and his life and character are determined by the thoughts in which he habitually dwells.
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A man should conceive of a legitimate purpose in his heart, and set out to accomplish it.
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Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.