This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?
ORISON SWETT MARDENNo 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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The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
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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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Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.
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He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t.
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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 will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.
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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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Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being.
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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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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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Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
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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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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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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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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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Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.
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To think you can creates the force that can.
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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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People do not realise the immense value of utilising spare minutes.
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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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We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.
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There is no medicine like hope.
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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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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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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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