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" Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him. "

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" Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him. "

" A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself. "

" You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. "

" When mental energy is allowed to follow the line of least resistance and to fall into easy channels, it is called weakness. "

" The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities. "

" You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration. "

" Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results. "

" A man is literally what he thinks. "

" Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil. "

" Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation. "

" In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. "

" He who would accomplish little must sacrifice little; he who would achieve much must sacrifice much; he who would attain highly must sacrifice greatly. "

" A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life. "

" The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny. "

" A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings. "

" Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. "

" The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. "

" To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve. "

" Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. "

" For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? "

" No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. "

" 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. "

" The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat. "

" Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit. "