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.
ORISON SWETT MARDENWhat 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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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
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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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Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
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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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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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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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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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The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
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The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.
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It 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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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
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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.
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Opportunities? They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
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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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There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can’t.
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