The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
ORISON SWETT MARDENThe golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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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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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t.
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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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We lend power to the things we fear!
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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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To think you can creates the force that can.
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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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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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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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Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
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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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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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