Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
ORISON SWETT MARDENBegin 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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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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We lend power to the things we fear!
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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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There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can’t.
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What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.
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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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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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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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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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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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Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being.
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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.
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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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If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
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