Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
ORISON SWETT MARDENA woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to herself the creative powers of the universe.
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Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.
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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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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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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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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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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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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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The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
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Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.
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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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There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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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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