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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.

Orison Swett Marden

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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Charm Greatness Poverty Struggle Time
To think you can creates the force that can.
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Creation Force Thinking Yourself
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
We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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Ourselves Rise Standard Thinking
Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.
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Children Perseverance Price Success Yourself
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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Alone Chance Environment Gold Opportunity Yourself
Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.
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Common Effort Greatness Way
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 medicine like hope.
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Hope Medicine One Liner
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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Achievement Dreams Greatness Man
Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in.
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Choice Missing Opportunity Reaction
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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Block Defeat Determination Soul Victory
Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality… that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence.
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Excellence Hands Mindset Quality Stand
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
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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Happiness Learning Man Principle Secret Soul
It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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Easy Ourselves Willing

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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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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