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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.

Orison Swett Marden

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
No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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Himself Pay Price Success
Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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Man Opportunity Wait Weakness
To think you can creates the force that can.
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Creation Force Thinking Yourself
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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Greatness Man Possible Success World
But how shall I get ideas? ”Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind – Act!
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Ideas Mindset Observation 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
We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.
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Ourselves Thinking Vision
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
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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Accomplishment Goal Greatness Impossible Time Yourself
This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?
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Lost Man Material Test Yourself
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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Feeling Happiness Man Possible Power Success
There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can’t.
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Himself Law Thinking
The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
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Day Intensity Man Purpose Success
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
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
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Greatness Hope Medicine Tomorrow

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