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We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.

Orison Swett Marden

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
To think you can creates the force that can.
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Creation Force Thinking Yourself
There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can’t.
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Himself Law 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
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
The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into it, has not learned the first principles of success or happiness.
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Happiness Learning Man Principle Secret Soul
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.
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Enjoyment Happiness Himself Mindset Secret
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
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
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
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Bold Mindset Obstacle Ourselves Walk
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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Channel Greatness Man Power Success
Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. It is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.
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Happiness Quiet Reality Recognition Simplicity World
We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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Ourselves Rise Standard Thinking
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
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
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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Charm Greatness Poverty Struggle Time

We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.

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