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“The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.”
James Allen
“For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? .”
“The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs”
“The selfishness must be discovered and understood before it can be removed. It is powerless to remove itself, neither will it pass away of itself. Darkness ceases only when light is introduced; so ignorance can only be dispersed by Knowledge; selfishness by Love.”
“He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.”
“He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would accomplish much must sacrifice much”
“If a man will understand how intimately, yea, how inseparably, self-control and happiness are associated, he has but to look into his own heart, and upon the world around,...Looking upon the lives of men and women, he will perceive how the hasty word, the bitter retort, the act of deception, the blind prejudice and foolish resentment bring wretchedness and even ruin in their train.”
“They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure”
“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound”
“Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.”
