Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
ORISON SWETT MARDENPessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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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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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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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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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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Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
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The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
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Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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What 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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Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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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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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
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Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
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There can be no life which does not contain something to be grateful for, and the habit of gratitude is one of the most powerful assets of success and happiness which can be named.
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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
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