Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
ORISON SWETT MARDENThe 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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Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made.
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Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.
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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
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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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Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
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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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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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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 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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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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We lend power to the things we fear!
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The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
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