The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
ORISON SWETT MARDENThe 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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Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.
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There is no medicine like hope.
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Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.
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There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can’t.
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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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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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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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Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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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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Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
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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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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
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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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