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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 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
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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Accomplishment Goal Greatness Impossible Time 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
Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
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Future Hope Learning
The secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and can enjoy what others own.
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Enjoyment Happiness Himself Mindset Secret
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
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
Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
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Expectation Honesty 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
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
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
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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Determination Education Failure Man Personal Willing
No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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Himself Pay Price Success
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.
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Greatness Man Possible Success World
We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.
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Ourselves Thinking Vision
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
We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
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Generosity Harvest Order Production
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
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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Inspirational Life Purpose Try Way Yourself
The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Best Breathe High Plane Purity
You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.
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Attitude World Yourself
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
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
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
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
The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
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Business Customer Gold Man Place Rule
Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
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Large Obstacle Small Yourself

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