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    Motivational Classics
    Motivational Classics
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    Motivational Classics

    By Charlie Jones

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    "Motivational Classics" contains a collection of three outstanding works that have been selected for the relevant principles and timeless impact they set forth. Acres of Diamonds has a powerfully simple message which has helped millions of people recognize their potential for success. One of the most dynamic motivators of all time, Temple University founder Russell Conwell, promises if you will respond genuinely to the needs of humanity, you can find self-fulfillment “in your own backyard.” The Kingship of Self-Control by William George Jordan is a book that will lead you expertly along the road of personal triumph by pointing the way to ultimate growth and happiness through self-discipline. As a Man Thinketh will inspire you to make your ideals become your reality. You are what you think is the basis of this simple and profound message by James Allen that has impacted generations of readers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLife Management Services, INC.
    Release dateFeb 6, 2011
    ISBN9780937539071
    Motivational Classics
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    Charlie Jones

    For decades, audiences worldwide have enjoyed Charlie Jones via audiocassettes, motivational films, books, and seminars. After a successful insurance career, he formed Life Management Services, Inc., and Executive Books, which distributes thousands of his favorite books. He has authored many books, including Life Is Tremendous -- 7 Laws of Leadership, with more than one million copies in print. A member of the prestigious Speakers Roundtable, Jones has been named one of the top fifty speakers of the twentieth century by the National Speakers Association.

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      Motivational Classics - Charlie Jones

      MOTIVATIONAL CLASSICS

      Three Renowned Books In One Volume

      Motivational classics contains a collection of three outstanding works that have been selected for the relevant principles and timeless impact they set forth.

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      Acres of Diamonds

      By Russell H. Conwell

      Acres of Diamonds has a powerfully simple message which has helped millions of people recognize their potential for success. One of the most dynamic motivators of all time, Temple University founder Russell Conwell, promises if you will respond genuinely to the needs of humanity, you can find self-fulfillment in your own backyard.

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      The Kingship of Self-Control

      By William George Jordan

      The Kingship of Self-Control is a book that will lead you expertly along the road of personal triumph by pointing the way to ultimate growth and happiness through self-discipline.

      •

      As A Man Thinketh

      By James Allen

      As a Man Thinketh will inspire you to make your ideals become your reality. You are what you think is the basis of this simple and profound message by James Allen that has impacted generations of readers.

      Smashwords Edition

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      Tremendous Life Books

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      Copyright © 2007 by Executive Books

      All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

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      CONTENTS

      Foreword by Charles T Jones

      Acres of Diamonds by Russell H. Conwell

      The Kingship of Self-Control by William George Jordan

      As A Man Thinketh by James Allen

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      You are today the same as you’ll be five years from now, except for two things: the people you meet and the books you read.

      —Charlie Tremendous Jones

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      FOREWORD

      You are the same you’ll be five years from now, except for two things: the people you meet and the books you read. The people you meet can’t always be with you, but what you read in books can remain with you a lifetime.

      How often we hear of individuals who began a new era in their lives from the reading of a single book. Some books can touch every important area of our lives and make us better people. This small volume contains three such books...three renown classics that could change your life dramatically.

      Acres of Diamonds, a perennial favorite of mine, has a powerfully simple message which has helped millions of people recognize their potential for success. One of the most dynamic motivators of all time, Temple university Russell Conwell, promises if you will respond genuinely to the needs of humanity, you can find self-fulfillment in your own backyard.

      In The Kingship of Self-Control, William George Jordan leads you expertly along the road to personal triumph. Challenging us to cast away those facets of ourselves which cause us to be less than what we should be, Jordan points the way to ultimate growth and happiness through self-discipline.

      One of the most enlightening books ever written, As A Man Thinketh, has been a personal favorite for decades. With insight and honesty, James Allen will inspire you to make your ideals become your reality. Having touched not only readers the world over, but me and my family as well, As A Man Thinketh is a book to be treasured.

      Each of these classics was selected on the virtue of its message being one of timeless impact. From my own personal experience, I can say that they are books to which the individual will return again and again; for the principles they set forth will be as relevant tomorrow as they were more than half a century ago.

      A single reading will start you moving toward your goals. A second reading will keep you on track until you reach those goals. And a third reading (perhaps years from now), will make you smile in recognition of the truths you learned and were able to apply to your life.

      Right here, you have everything you need to help make your life as tremendous as you’ve always wanted it to be. And right now, you have a brighter tomorrow ahead of you. Remember, you only get to keep what you give away and only enjoy what you have when you share it.

      Tremendously,

      Charlie T Jones

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      ACRES OF DIAMONDS

      Russell H. Conwell

      About the Author

      Russell H. Conwell (1843-1925), grew up believing in the infinite possibilities of mankind. His life was an example of that belief.

      During his youth, the Conwell farm in Berkshire, Massachusetts, was a station for the Underground Railway and sheltered many a runaway slave. At the age of fifteen, Conwell, desiring to expand his horizons, worked his way to Europe on a cattle ship. Upon his return, he graduated from Wilbraham Academy where he had supported himself largely through his own exertions.

      He was nineteen, an avowed atheist, and a law student at Yale when the Civil War began. Returning home to Massachusetts to raise a company of volunteer militia, he soon gained a reputation as a great recruiting officer and it was not long before he was elected captain of his own company.

      He saw much action in battle and was appointed lieutenant-colonel before an event took place which changed his life. Severely wounded during a surprise Confederate attack at Kenesaw Mountain, Conwell was unable to stop his orderly from making a valiant attempt on his behalf. Sadly, while endeavoring to protect his commander’s honor, the youth lost his life. Before he died, however, he spoke to Conwell of his Christian faith. So profound an effect did this have on Conwell, that he himself became a Christian.

      After the war, he began a successful law practice and founded several newspapers. The death of his wife when he was twenty-nine, however, deepened his Christian faith, and he eventually joined the ministry.

      Taking over an impoverished Baptist Church in Lexington, Massachusetts, he achieved remarkable success, and was ordained there in 1879. He afterwards accepted a call to the grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia, which, under his leadership, flourished for many years and became the Great Baptist Temple in 1891.

      Eventually, out of the night school in the church basement, with a corps of volunteer teachers, Conwell founded Temple University. To raise money to support the school, along with three hospitals which he also founded, Conwell became a prominent lecturer on a great variety of subjects, as well as the author of sixteen books. His most famous lecture, Acres of Diamonds, was given more than six thousand times during his life and is still proof today of his belief in man’s limitless potential.

      ACRES OF DIAMONDS

      When going down the Tigris and Euphrates rivers many years ago with a party of English travelers I found myself under the direction of an old Arab guide whom we hired up at Bagdad, and I have often thought how that guide resembled our barbers in certain mental characteristics. He thought that it was not only his duty to guide us down those rivers, and do what he was paid for doing, but also to entertain us with stories curious and weird, ancient and modern, strange and familiar. Many of them I have forgotten, and I am glad I have, but there is one I shall never forget.

      The old guide was leading my camel by its halter along the banks of those ancient rivers, and he told me story after story until I grew weary of his story-telling and ceased to listen. I have never been irritated with that guide when he lost his temper as I ceased listening. But I remember that he took off his Turkish cap and swung it in a circle to get my attention. I could see it through the corner of my eye, but I determined not to look straight at him for fear he would tell another story. But although I am not a woman, I did finally look, and as soon as I did he went right into another story.

      Said he, I will tell you a story now which I reserve for my particular friends. When he emphasized the words particular friends, I listened, and I have ever been glad I did. I really feel devoutly thankful, that there are 1,674 young men who have been carried through college by this lecture who are also glad that I did listen. The old guide told me that there once lived not far from the River Indus an ancient Persian by the name of Ali Hafed. He said that Ali Hafed owned a very large farm, that he had orchards, grain-fields, and gardens; that he had money at interest, and was a wealthy and contented man. He was contented because he was wealthy, and wealthy because he was contented. One day there visited that old Persian farmer one of these ancient Buddhist priests, one of the wise men of the East. He sat down by the fire and told the old farmer how this world of ours was made. He said that this world was once a mere bank of fog, and that the Almighty thrust His finger into this bank of fog, and began slowly to move His finger around, increasing the speed until at last He whirled this bank of fog into a solid ball of fire. Then it went rolling through the universe, burning its way through

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