"Whenever you permit yourself to think what persons,……" — Christian D. Larson
"Whenever you permit yourself to think what persons, things, conditions, or circumstances may suggest, you are not following what you want to think. You are not following your own desires but borrowed desires. Use your imagination in determining what you want to think or do."
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Christian D. Larson
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52 Quotes by Christian D. Larson
Christian D. Larson has 52 quotes on this site.
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True achievement in any sphere of action depends upon real ability, and a strong, deep, whole-souled love.
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To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud words but great deeds.…
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Make all your friends feel there is something in them.
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It is just as necessary to forgive ourselves as it is to forgive others, and the principal reason why forgiveness…
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When you think that you are beautiful, you are liable to think that you are more beautiful than others, and…
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When anyone is going wrong, it is a mistake to warn him not to go further. It is also a…
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The pessimist waits for better times, and expects to keep on waiting; the optimist goes to work with the best…
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In everything, depend upon yourself, but work in harmony with all things. Do not depend even upon the Infinite, but…
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Life becomes the way it is lived; and man may live the way he wants to live when he learns…
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When your thinking is brilliant, you will be brilliant, but if your thinking is not brilliant you will not be…
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What you admire in others will develop in yourself. Therefore, to love the ordinary in any one is to become…
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The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations…
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
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I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn't really know how…
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing…
— Warren G. Bennis
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You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
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The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole…
— Dale Carnegie
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I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then -…
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Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our…
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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the…
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Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed…
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Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation…
— Abraham Flexner
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To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.
— George Santayana
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