Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
ORISON SWETT MARDENHow can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
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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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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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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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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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A woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to herself the creative powers of the universe.
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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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Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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There is no medicine like hope.
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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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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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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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We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.
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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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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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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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