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Opportunities? They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Orison Swett Marden

What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.
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Comfortable Effort Pay People Price Sacrifice Simplicity Willing
Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
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Choice Himself Man Repeat Slave
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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Enough Happiness Sad Yourself
The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
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Decision Quality Run Value Work World
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
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Bold Mindset Obstacle Ourselves Walk
There is no medicine like hope.
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Hope Medicine One Liner
A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
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Condition Desire Force Strong Success
The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
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Business Customer Gold Man Place Rule
Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being.
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Balance Love Man Play Work
Opportunities? They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
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Discover Eyes Lying Opportunity Power
Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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Build Destroy Pessimist
Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
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Believe Heart Yourself
Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.
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Determination Education Failure Man Personal Willing
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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Creative Herself Positive Universe Woman Work
The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.
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Act Beginning Greatness Habit Repeat Thinking Time
He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t.
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Himself Inspirational Mindset Thinking
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
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Face Happiness Heart Ourselves Young
It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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Easy Ourselves Willing
Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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Man Opportunity Wait Weakness
No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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Himself Pay Price Success
Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
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Future Hope Learning
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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Charm Greatness Poverty Struggle Time
How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
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Development Man Myself Possible
Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
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Large Obstacle Small Yourself
No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
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Ideal Man Place Success Weakness
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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Encounter Measurement Struggle Success Yourself
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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Greatness Opportunity See World Youth

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