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People do not realise the immense value of utilising spare minutes.

Orison Swett Marden

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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Comfortable Effort Pay People Price Sacrifice Simplicity Willing
Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being.
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Balance Love Man Play Work
Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
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Believe Heart Yourself
A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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Goal Goodness Road
Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.
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Gravitation Knowledge Possible Power Source
Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.
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Conquer Control Power Yourself
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
Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality… that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence.
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Excellence Hands Mindset Quality Stand
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
Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.
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Children Perseverance Price Success Yourself
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
The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into it, has not learned the first principles of success or happiness.
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Happiness Learning Man Principle Secret Soul
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
Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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Man Opportunity Wait Weakness
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 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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