WednesdayJul 15, 2026
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One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true or false. It comes to be the dominating thought in one's mind.
One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.
The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that bit, but steadily building, steadily building.
The great thing is the start to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer and him for nothing.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.
You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.
Plant the seed of desire in your mind and it forms a nucleus with power to attract to itself everything needed for its fulfillment.
The first principle of success is desire knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.
Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest that intense, eager, longing, craving, insistent, demanding, ravenous Desire which is akin to the persistent, insistent, ardent, overwhelming desire of the drowning man for a breath of air; of the shipwrecked or desert-lost man for a drink of water; of the famished man for bread and meat....
It sometimes seems that we have only to solve a thing greatly to get it.
Vision It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.
You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.
You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.
Pictures help you to form the mental mold...
All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck who keeps right on going is the man who is there when the good luck comes and is ready to receive it.
The mere fact that you have obstacles to overcome is in your favor...
Something must be done when you find an opposing set of desires of this kind well to the fore in your category of strong desires. You must set in operation a process of competition, from which one must emerge a victor and the other set be defeated.
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.
Playing safe is probably the most unsafe thing in the world. You cannot stand still. You must go forward.
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginning.
See things as you would have them be instead of as they are.
If you see yourself as prosperous, you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up, that is exactly what you will be.
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