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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Orison Swett Marden

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
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
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
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Face Happiness Heart Ourselves Young
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
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
A 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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Creative Herself Positive Universe Woman Work
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
He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t.
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Himself Inspirational Mindset Thinking
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
Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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Imagination Inspirational Limitation Ourselves Possible Reality Thinking
The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Best Breathe High Plane Purity
Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
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Large Obstacle Small Yourself
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.
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Encounter Measurement Struggle Success Yourself
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
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

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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