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.
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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Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
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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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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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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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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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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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There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
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He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t.
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Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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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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Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.
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Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
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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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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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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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