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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

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
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
Opportunities? They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
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Discover Eyes Lying Opportunity Power
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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Comfortable Effort Pay People Price Sacrifice Simplicity Willing
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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Battle Mindset Ourselves World
If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
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Life Thinking Yourself
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
Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.
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Brain Local Thinking Trouble Worry
To think you can creates the force that can.
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Creation Force Thinking Yourself
He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t.
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Himself Inspirational Mindset Thinking
Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.
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Channel Greatness Man Power Success
Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
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Large Obstacle Small Yourself
There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can’t.
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Himself Law Thinking
Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in.
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Choice Missing Opportunity Reaction
Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say “No,” though all the world say “Yes.
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Afraid Individual Lose Man Talk World
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
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Bold Mindset Obstacle Ourselves Walk

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