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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.

Orison Swett Marden

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
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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Achievement Dreams Greatness Man
Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
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Chance Education Greatness Preparation Profit Yourself
You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.
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Attitude World Yourself
There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
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Believe Conscious Ourselves
Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark.
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Best Hands Life Man Rule Trade 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
The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
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Day Intensity Man Purpose Success
The 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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Accomplishment Best Big Man Possible Quality Yourself
A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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Goal Goodness Road
Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being.
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Balance Love Man Play Work
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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Enough Happiness Sad Yourself
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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Creative Herself Positive Universe Woman Work
There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can’t.
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Himself Law Thinking
Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
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Choice Himself Man Repeat Slave
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
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Greatness Hope Medicine Tomorrow

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