What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.
ORISON SWETT MARDENAll 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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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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Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.
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Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
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He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t.
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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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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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You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.
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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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Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being.
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The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
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Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
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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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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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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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