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.
ORISON SWETT MARDENThe 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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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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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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Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
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We lend power to the things we fear!
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It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.
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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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You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
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Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.
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The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
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The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into it, has not learned the first principles of success or happiness.
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t.
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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.
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Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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