The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
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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Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. It is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.
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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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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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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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There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can’t.
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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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Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
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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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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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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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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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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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Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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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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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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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 are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
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If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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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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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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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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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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