Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.
ORISON SWETT MARDENWork, love and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being.
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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
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He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t.
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The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.
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A woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to herself the creative powers of the universe.
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We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
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There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
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The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.
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Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. It is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.
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Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being.
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Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
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Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep the wolf from the door.
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Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality… that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence.
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There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can’t.
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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
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The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
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Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
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The secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and can enjoy what others own.
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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
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Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
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Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made.
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
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