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Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.

Orison Swett Marden

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
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
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
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
No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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Himself Pay Price Success
We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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Ourselves Rise Standard Thinking
This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?
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Lost Man Material Test 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
Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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Build Destroy Pessimist
He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t.
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Himself Inspirational Mindset Thinking
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
Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in.
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Choice Missing Opportunity Reaction
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 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
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
We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.
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Ourselves Thinking Vision

Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.

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