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.
ORISON SWETT MARDENThe 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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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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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t.
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Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.
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The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
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To think you can creates the force that can.
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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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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
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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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Opportunities? They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
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What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.
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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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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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Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
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