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But how shall I get ideas? ”Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind – Act!

Orison Swett Marden

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
Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being.
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Balance Love Man Play Work
We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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Ourselves Rise Standard Thinking
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
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
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Bold Mindset Obstacle Ourselves Walk
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
Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
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Afraid Animal Eyes Obstacle Wild 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
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
The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.
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Accomplishment Best Big Man Possible Quality Yourself
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
A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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Goal Goodness Road
Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep the wolf from the door.
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Charm Greatness Poverty Struggle Time
Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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Man Occasion Opportunity Strong Weakness Yourself
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
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Confidence Courage Failure King Lost Man Respect
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

But how shall I get ideas? ”Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind – Act!

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