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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.

Orison Swett Marden

Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
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Choice Himself Man Repeat Slave
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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Charm Greatness Poverty Struggle Time
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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Battle Mindset Ourselves World
No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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Himself Pay Price Success
The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
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Business Customer Gold Man Place Rule
Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark.
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Best Hands Life Man Rule Trade Yourself
But how shall I get ideas? ”Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind – Act!
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Ideas Mindset Observation Yourself
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
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Confidence Courage Failure King Lost Man Respect
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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Decision Quality Run Value Work World
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.
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Feeling Happiness Man Possible Power Success
Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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Imagination Inspirational Limitation Ourselves Possible Reality Thinking
To think you can creates the force that can.
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Creation Force Thinking Yourself
Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.
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Brain Local Thinking Trouble Worry
Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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Man Opportunity Wait Weakness
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
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Encounter Measurement Struggle Success Yourself
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
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Failure Himself Measurement

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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