The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
ORISON SWETT MARDENTo think you can creates the force that can.
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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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We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.
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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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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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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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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
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A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
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We lend power to the things we fear!
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People do not realise the immense value of utilising spare minutes.
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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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All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
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The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
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Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in.
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Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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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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