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Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

Orison Swett Marden

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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Afraid Individual Lose Man Talk World
Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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Imagination Inspirational Limitation Ourselves Possible Reality Thinking
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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Chance Education Greatness Preparation Profit Yourself
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
We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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Ourselves Rise Standard Thinking
Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
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Afraid Animal Eyes Obstacle Wild Yourself
Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.
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Brain Local Thinking Trouble Worry
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
Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
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Future Hope Learning
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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Enough Happiness Sad 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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Ideal Man Place Success Weakness
A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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Goal Goodness Road
Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.
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Conquer Control Power Yourself
There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can’t.
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Himself Law Thinking
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
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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Determination Education Failure Man Personal Willing

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