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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.

Orison Swett Marden

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
How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
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Development Man Myself Possible
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
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
It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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Easy Ourselves Willing
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
Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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Man Opportunity Wait Weakness
Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.
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Children Perseverance Price Success 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
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
Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.
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Determination Education Failure Man Personal Willing
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
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
The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
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Day Intensity Man Purpose Success
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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Enough Happiness Sad Yourself
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

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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