Samuel Smiles: To think we are able is almost to be so; to determine upon attainment is…
To think we are able is almost to be so; to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself. Thus earnest resolution has often seemed to have about it almost a savor of omnipotence.
In today’s wordsBelieving we can do it is half of doing it; deciding to achieve something is often the achievement itself. Earnest resolve can seem almost all-powerful.
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- Never allow what you know you have lost, to keep you from finding what you can.
- The deeper that you WANT, the stronger your BELIEF. The stronger your belief, the greater you’ll ACHIEVE.
- Beliefs are like the roots of a tree; the deeper they go, the higher the tree potentially grows.
- Persistence is to keep doing what you know to do, even when doing what you know to do, doesn't seem to be getting any results...knowing that the greatest outcome of doing what you know to do is what YOU BECOME in the process, not what you get from Doing the Process.
- Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
- Winners are not those who never fail, but those who never quit.