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To think you can creates the force that can.

Orison Swett Marden

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
Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.
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Conquer Control Power Yourself
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
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
Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being.
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Balance Love Man Play Work
There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
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Discover Dreams Imagination Power Yourself
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
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Greatness Hope Medicine Tomorrow
How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
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Development Man Myself Possible
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
Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
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Believe Heart Yourself
The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
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Day Intensity Man Purpose Success
No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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Himself Pay Price Success
A woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to herself the creative powers of the universe.
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Creative Herself Positive Universe Woman Work
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
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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Ideas Mindset Observation Yourself
We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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Ourselves Rise Standard Thinking
Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say “No,” though all the world say “Yes.
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Afraid Individual Lose Man Talk World
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
Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
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Future Hope Learning
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
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
Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
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Goodness Greatness Life Machine
There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can’t.
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Himself Law Thinking
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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Gratitude Habit Life Name Powerful Success
We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.
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Ourselves Thinking Vision
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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Decision Quality Run Value Work World
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
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Failure Himself Measurement

To think you can creates the force that can.

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