There is no medicine like hope.
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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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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A woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to herself the creative powers of the universe.
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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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Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark.
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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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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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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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Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
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It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.
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There can be no life which does not contain something to be grateful for, and the habit of gratitude is one of the most powerful assets of success and happiness which can be named.
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The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
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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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Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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Opportunities? They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
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Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
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