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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

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Children Perseverance Price Success Yourself
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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Feeling Happiness Man Possible Power Success
Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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Build Destroy Pessimist
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
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
Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
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Desire Destiny Habit Thinking
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 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
Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.
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Gravitation Knowledge Possible Power Source
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
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
Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being.
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Balance Love Man Play Work
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
Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.
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Common Effort Greatness Way
Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
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Goodness Greatness Life Machine
We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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Ourselves Rise Standard Thinking

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