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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Orison Swett Marden

Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
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Large Obstacle Small Yourself
The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.
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Act Beginning Greatness Habit Repeat Thinking Time
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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Man Occasion Opportunity Strong Weakness Yourself
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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Charm Greatness Poverty Struggle Time
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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Ideas Mindset Observation Yourself
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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Encounter Measurement Struggle Success Yourself
How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
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Development Man Myself Possible
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
Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.
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Gravitation Knowledge Possible Power Source
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
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
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Face Happiness Heart Ourselves Young
Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
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Believe Heart Yourself
Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.
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Beginning Grand Possible Time Work
There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
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Discover Dreams Imagination Power Yourself
Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in.
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Choice Missing Opportunity Reaction
Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. It is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.
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Happiness Quiet Reality Recognition Simplicity World

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

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