The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
ORISON SWETT MARDENLearn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
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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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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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He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t.
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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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How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
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We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.
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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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Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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To think you can creates the force that can.
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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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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 best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
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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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