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Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.

Orison Swett Marden

Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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Build Destroy Pessimist
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
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
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Confidence Courage Failure King Lost Man Respect
There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can’t.
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Himself Law Thinking
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
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Failure Himself Measurement
Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.
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Gravitation Knowledge Possible Power Source
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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Best Hands Life Man Rule Trade Yourself
But how shall I get ideas? ”Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind – Act!
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Ideas Mindset Observation Yourself
Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
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Large Obstacle Small Yourself
He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t.
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Himself Inspirational Mindset Thinking
Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
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Goodness Greatness Life Machine
There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
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Believe Conscious Ourselves
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 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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Action Best Better Greatness Reaction
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

Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.

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