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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.

Orison Swett Marden

Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being.
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Balance Love Man Play Work
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
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
Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
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Goodness Greatness Life Machine
Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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Man Occasion Opportunity Strong Weakness Yourself
The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.
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Act Beginning Greatness Habit Repeat Thinking Time
It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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Easy Ourselves Willing
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
How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
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Development Man Myself Possible
Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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Man Opportunity Wait Weakness
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
No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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Himself Pay Price 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
Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
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Desire Destiny Habit Thinking
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
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

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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