Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
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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Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.
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People do not realise the immense value of utilising spare minutes.
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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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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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Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say “No,” though all the world say “Yes.
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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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To think you can creates the force that can.
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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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Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
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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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The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
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Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in.
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Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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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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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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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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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.
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If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
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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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There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can’t.
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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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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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