David Seabury Quotes

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• Your desires and true beliefs have a way of playing blind man's bluff. You must corner the inner facts...
• Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.
• No man will work for your interests unless they are his.
• We learn courageous action by going forward whenever fear urges us back.
• Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling.
• Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
• A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.
• Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.
• He who doesn't consider himself is seldom considerate of others.
• The key to most difficulties does not lie in the dilemmas themselves, but in our relationship to them.
• If you give yourself to your task at once, you won't have to do it twice.
• Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of…
• Make yourself an efficient spark plug, igniting the latent energy of those about you.
• Those who fume at their problems become their victims.
• Courage and conviction are powerful weapons...
• Manage yourself first and others will take your orders.
• A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. 'By getting up every time I fell down,' he answered.
• The facts, if they are there, speak for themselves.
• Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows…
• Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the…

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