The 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.
ORISON SWETT MARDENLearn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
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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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Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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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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Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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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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A woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to herself the creative powers of the universe.
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To think you can creates the force that can.
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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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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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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There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can’t.
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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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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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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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Opportunities? They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
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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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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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Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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There is no medicine like hope.
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Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
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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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Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.
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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.
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There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
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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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