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...essential precaution, therefore, is so to regulate the opposing powers that the one may have a series of uninterrupted successes, until repetition has fortified...the outset is imperative. Failure at first is apt to dampen the energy of all future attempts, whereas past experience of success nerves one to future vigor....

...one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again. . . . The need of securing success at the outset is imperative. Failure at first is apt to dampen the energy of all future attempts, whereas past experience of success nerves one to future vigor....

...lose a battle. Every gain on the wrong side undoes the effect of many conquests on the right. . . . The need of securing success at the outset is imperative. Failure at first is apt to dampen the energy of all future attempts, while past experience of success nerves one to future vigour."...

...precaution, therefore, is so to regulate the two opposing powers that the one may have a series of uninterrupted successes, until repetition has fortified...the theoretically best career of mental progress." | Fourth Maxim. "Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and...

...precaution, therefore, is so to regulate the two opposing powers that the one may have a series of uninterrupted successes, until repetition has fortified...with the opposition, under any circumstances. This is theoretically the best career of mental progress." The path is clear. In moving toward personal effectiveness...

...precaution, therefore, is so to regulate the two opposing powers that the one may have a series of uninterrupted successes, until repetition has fortified...with the opposition under any circumstances." This means training the will by a series of difficult acts, accomplished in spite of the effort they require,...

...powers that the one may have a series of uninterrupted successes, until repetition has _f ortified it to such a degree as to enable it to cope with the opposition under any circumstances." This means training the will by a series of difficult acts, accomplished in spite of the effort they require,...

...Continuity of training is the great means of making the nervous system act infallibly right. . . . The need of securing success at the outset is imperative. Failure at first is apt to dampen the energy of all future attempts, whereas past experience of success nerves one to future vigor....

...precaution, therefore, is so to regulate the two opposing powers that the one may have a series of uninterrupted successes until repetition has fortified...experiences of success nerve one to future vigor. Goethe said to a man who consulted him about an enterprise but mistrusted his own powers, "Ach! you need only...