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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
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Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.
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Successful people pay more attention to their visions and goals than to history and the opinions of others.
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The character ethic, which I believe to be the foundation of success, teaches that there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.
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The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.
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The doctors realized very clearly that their minds and emotions were changing from day to day. On the one hand they were healing the patient, and on the other it looked as if they were healing themselves too. It was this chief surgeon who first volunteered to offer his skin when grafting began.
A Battle For Life -
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
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The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and influence their actions. A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life.
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.
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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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The key to good management is keeping the nine guys who hate your guts away from the nine guys who haven't made up their minds.
Common Ground News -
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.
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The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
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The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.
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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
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Their sighing , canting , grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
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There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound by shallows and in misery.
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