Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
ORISON SWETT MARDENAll men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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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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Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
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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.
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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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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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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
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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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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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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.
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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in.
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Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.
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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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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
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