We lend power to the things we fear!
ORISON SWETT MARDENWhat 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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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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To think you can creates the force that can.
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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.
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Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. It is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.
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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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Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.
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Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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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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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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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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There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
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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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There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can’t.
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What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.
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