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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Orison Swett Marden

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.
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Inspirational Life Purpose Try Way Yourself
A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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Goal Goodness Road
It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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Easy Ourselves Willing
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
There is no medicine like hope.
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Hope Medicine One Liner
You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.
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Attitude World Yourself
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
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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Failure Himself Measurement
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
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Encounter Measurement Struggle Success Yourself
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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Greatness Man Possible Success World
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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Greatness Opportunity See World Youth
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
Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
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Future Hope Learning
Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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Build Destroy Pessimist
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
We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
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Generosity Harvest Order Production
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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Chance Education Greatness Preparation Profit Yourself
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
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
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
Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say “No,” though all the world say “Yes.
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Afraid Individual Lose Man Talk World
Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in.
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Choice Missing Opportunity Reaction
We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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Ourselves Rise Standard Thinking
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
The secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and can enjoy what others own.
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Enjoyment Happiness Himself Mindset Secret
Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.
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Determination Education Failure Man Personal Willing
Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.
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Conquer Control Power Yourself

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

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