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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.... Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture ... Do not build obstacles in your imagination ... Do not be awestruck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
A lot of successful people are risk-takers. Unless you're willing to do thatÖ to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.
Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other
for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people
together through the years. That is what makes a marriage last --more than passion or even sex!
Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do.
Luck to me is something else: Hard work -- and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.
Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can't see anything wrong with each other.
For many people,
an excuse is better than an achievement because
an achievement, no matter how great,
leaves you having to prove yourself again in the future
but an excuse can last for life."
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking
Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. [For] to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.
No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.
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