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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

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
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Ability Creation Yourself
Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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Man Opportunity Wait Weakness
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
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Greatness Hope Medicine Tomorrow
The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.
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Act Beginning Greatness Habit Repeat Thinking Time
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
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
Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
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Believe Heart Yourself
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
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
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
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Accomplishment Goal Greatness Impossible Time Yourself
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
The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.
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Accomplishment Best Big Man Possible Quality Yourself
We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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Ourselves Rise Standard Thinking
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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Confidence Courage Failure King Lost Man Respect
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
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

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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