Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
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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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
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Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
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Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark.
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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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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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Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
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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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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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People do not realise the immense value of utilising spare minutes.
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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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If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
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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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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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To think you can creates the force that can.
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