The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
ORISON SWETT MARDENIt is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.
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The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
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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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The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
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Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality… that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence.
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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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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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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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The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
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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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But how shall I get ideas? ”Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind – Act!
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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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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
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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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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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Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
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