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.
ORISON SWETT MARDENWorry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.
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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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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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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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You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.
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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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Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
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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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The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
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The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
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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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Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality… that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence.
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The secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and can enjoy what others own.
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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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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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