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The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.

Orison Swett Marden

No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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Himself Pay Price Success
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
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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Afraid Animal Eyes Obstacle Wild Yourself
Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.
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Brain Local Thinking Trouble Worry
We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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Ourselves Rise Standard Thinking
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
Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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Man Occasion Opportunity Strong Weakness Yourself
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
What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.
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Block Defeat Determination Soul Victory
No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
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Ideal Man Place Success Weakness
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
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
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Confidence Courage Failure King Lost Man Respect
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
There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can’t.
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Himself Law Thinking
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
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Face Happiness Heart Ourselves Young
He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t.
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Himself Inspirational Mindset Thinking

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