The Science of Being Great

Form your mental vision of yourself with care. Make the thought-form of yourself as you wish to be, and hold this with the faith that it is being realized, and with the purpose to realize it completely.

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DO not merely think that you are going to become great; think that you are great now.

You are what you are because you think as you do; you are where you are because you think as you do.

There can be no real greatness without original thought. All that a man does outwardly is the expression and completion of his inward thinking. No action is possible without thought, and no great action is possible until a great thought has preceded it. Action is the second form of thought, and personality is the materialization of thought. Environment is the result of thought; things group themselves or arrange themselves around you according to your thought.

Thinking, not mere knowledge or information, makes personality. Thinking is growth; you cannot think without growing.

You are not mentally developed by what you read, but by what you think about what you read.

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