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Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.

Orison Swett Marden

We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.
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Ourselves Thinking Vision
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
People do not realise the immense value of utilising spare minutes.
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People Time Value Worth
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
Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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Build Destroy Pessimist
Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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Man Opportunity Wait Weakness
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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Beginning Grand Possible Time Work
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
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 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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Action Best Better Greatness Reaction
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
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Ability Creation Yourself
Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
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Believe Heart Yourself
Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
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Choice Himself Man Repeat Slave
If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
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Life Thinking Yourself
Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in.
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Choice Missing Opportunity Reaction
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

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