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"Practice yourself for heaven's sake in little things and thence proceed to greater."
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"People who truly serve God embrace light, they fall in love with light, and they proclaim light, they fight with light."

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else."

"The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty."

"Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day. That is, be systematically ascetic or heroic in little unnecessary points, do every day or two something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. So with the man who has daily inured himself to habits of concentrated attention, energetic volition, and self-denial in unnecessary things. He will stand like a tower when everything rocks around him, and when his softer fellow-mortals are winnowed like chaff in the blast."

"Don't let your ego put you in a compromising situation. Don't allow your pride to keep you from seeking the help you need. And don't give in to your fears. Stay focused."

"Be on time! If you have a 15-minute appointment-keep it at fifteen minutes unless there is mutual agreement to continue."

"Children are the most reasonable about discipline. When they tell you not to do something, it's always because they know why."

"Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time criticizing the lives and work of others. Do what matters most to you and make a difference doing that."

"Do not indulge your weaknesses!"

"Why so eager to jump in and direct someone else's life when you can't stick to your own goals and resolutions?"
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"Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world."

"Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public."

"It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting."

"When you do anything from a clear judgment that it ought to be done, never shrink from being seen to do it, even though the world should misunderstand it; for if you are not acting rightly, shun the action itself; if you are, why fear those who wrongly censure you?"

"If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible."

"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."

"Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen."
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