The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
ORISON SWETT MARDENMan becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
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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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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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How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can’t.
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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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To think you can creates the force that can.
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Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
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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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If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
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We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.
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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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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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Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
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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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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.
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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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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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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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Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
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The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
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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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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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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.
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Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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