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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential...

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.