"Let every man or woman here remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia."

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Source : Russell Conwell (2007). “Acres of Diamonds (Business Success Edition)”, p.50, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

Russell Conwell

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“I think it would make the world a little bit better place if everyone was doing what they loved to do. ... I'm doing it and I'm loving it.”
“I do everything all wrong, but I think for me that's the best, because I don't think I have a voice.”
“What you have to watch out for are the theories that claim to be infallible. Because the only way their believers can win is to stomp out everyone who disagrees with them.”

Source : "When Worlds (and Particles) Collide". www.infoworld.com. September 12, 2008.
“Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.”
“Hashish will be, indeed, for the impressions and familiar thoughts of the man, a mirror which magnifies, yet no more than a mirror.”
“There were hard days when you'd be screaming for hours and then the next day, you'd have a scene where you were just talking and because your voice was so stretched out from screaming for five hours, it would sound weird. It required a lot of adrenaline, too, so you have to be able to turn it on all the time. You felt a bit thin at the end of it, just depleted.”

Source : Source: dailydead.com
“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”
“When it seems that someone has shattered your dreams....pick up even the smallest of pieces and use them to build bigger and better dreams.”

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