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.
ORISON SWETT MARDENPut the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.
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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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There is no medicine like hope.
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There can be no life which does not contain something to be grateful for, and the habit of gratitude is one of the most powerful assets of success and happiness which can be named.
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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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Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark.
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Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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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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Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
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Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
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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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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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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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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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Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
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Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
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