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Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.
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The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
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A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
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Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us.
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No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
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Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.
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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
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Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.
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Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
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The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
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Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
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He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.
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The world is moving so fast these days that the one who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
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Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.
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