Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction
In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient.
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
The essence of genius is to know what to overlook.
If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
The strenuous life tastes better
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
A man may not achieve everything he has dreamed, but he will never achieve anything great without having dreamed it first.
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
It is as important to cultivate your silence power as your word power.
In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
Do every day or two something for no other reason than its difficulty.
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
Belief creates the actual fact.
Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.
The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention, over and over again, is the very root of judgment, character, and will... An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence.
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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