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What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.

Orison Swett Marden

The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
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Business Customer Gold Man Place Rule
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
There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
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Discover Dreams Imagination Power Yourself
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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Happiness Quiet Reality Recognition Simplicity World
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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Condition Desire Force Strong Success
Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
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Desire Destiny Habit Thinking
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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Enough Happiness Sad Yourself
We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.
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Ourselves Thinking Vision
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
Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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Build Destroy Pessimist
Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
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Goodness Greatness Life Machine
How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
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Development Man Myself Possible
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
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
We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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Ourselves Rise Standard Thinking
The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Best Breathe High Plane Purity

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