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Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.

Orison Swett Marden

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.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Gratitude Habit Life Name Powerful Success
A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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Goal Goodness Road
People do not realise the immense value of utilising spare minutes.
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People Time Value Worth
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
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
Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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Build Destroy Pessimist
He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t.
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Himself Inspirational Mindset Thinking
A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
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Condition Desire Force Strong Success
Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
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Large Obstacle Small Yourself
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
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
Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
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Chance Education Greatness Preparation Profit Yourself
How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
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Development Man Myself Possible
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
There is no medicine like hope.
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Hope Medicine One Liner
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

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