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Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Orison Swett Marden

Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.
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Common Effort Greatness Way
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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Feeling Happiness Man Possible Power Success
Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.
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Conquer Control Power Yourself
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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Condition Desire Force Strong Success
To think you can creates the force that can.
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Creation Force Thinking Yourself
Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
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Large Obstacle Small Yourself
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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Afraid Animal Eyes Obstacle Wild Yourself
Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
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Future Hope Learning
No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
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Ideal Man Place Success Weakness
You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.
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Attitude World Yourself
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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Lost Man Material Test Yourself
There can be no life which does not contain something to be grateful for, and the habit of gratitude is one of the most powerful assets of success and happiness which can be named.
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Gratitude Habit Life Name Powerful Success
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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Bold Mindset Obstacle Ourselves Walk
Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
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Believe Heart Yourself
Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
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Goodness Greatness Life Machine
Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.
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Brain Local Thinking Trouble Worry

Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

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