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.
ORISON SWETT MARDENNo 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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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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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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To think you can creates the force that can.
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Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being.
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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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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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There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
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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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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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Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.
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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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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
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You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.
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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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