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.
ORISON SWETT MARDENBut 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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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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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.
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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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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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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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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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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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There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can’t.
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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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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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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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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?
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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
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Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
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Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.
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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
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We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.
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Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.
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