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The 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.

Orison Swett Marden

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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Discover Dreams Imagination Power Yourself
What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.
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Block Defeat Determination Soul Victory
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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Greatness Man Possible Success World
Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Expectation Honesty Yourself
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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Inspirational Life Purpose Try Way Yourself
Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
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Goodness Greatness Life Machine
Opportunities? They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
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Discover Eyes Lying Opportunity Power
He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t.
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Himself Inspirational Mindset Thinking
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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Gratitude Habit Life Name Powerful Success
Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.
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Conquer Control Power 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
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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Beginning Grand Possible Time Work
There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can’t.
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Himself Law Thinking
Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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Imagination Inspirational Limitation Ourselves Possible Reality Thinking
The 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.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Enjoyment Happiness Himself Mindset Secret
Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
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Believe Heart Yourself
There is no medicine like hope.
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Hope Medicine One Liner
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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Excellence Hands Mindset Quality Stand
The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
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Business Customer Gold Man Place Rule
This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?
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Lost Man Material Test Yourself
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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Man Occasion Opportunity Strong Weakness Yourself
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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Battle Mindset Ourselves World
If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
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Life Thinking Yourself
Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.
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Common Effort Greatness Way
Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being.
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Balance Love Man Play Work
What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.
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Comfortable Effort Pay People Price Sacrifice Simplicity Willing
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

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