The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into it, has not learned the first principles of success or happiness.
ORISON SWETT MARDENThe successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
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Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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Opportunities? They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
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The secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and can enjoy what others own.
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To think you can creates the force that can.
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Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
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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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A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
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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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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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Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
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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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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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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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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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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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You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.
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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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Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.
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The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
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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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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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There is no medicine like hope.
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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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Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
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