"Men are anxious to improve their circumstances,..." - Quote by James Allen
Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.
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“He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but his looking glass.”
“The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.”
“A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.”
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“SUCCESS is when I add value to MYSELF. SIGNIFICANCE is when I add value to OTHERS.”
More on Circumstance
“A particular train of thought persisted in, be it good or bad, cannot fail to produce its results on the character and circumstances. A man cannot directly choose his circumstances, but he can choose his thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape his circumstances.”
“The good or bad is not in the circumstance, but only in the mind...that encounters it.”
“Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.”