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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.

Orison Swett Marden

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.
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Feeling Happiness Man Possible Power Success
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
Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. It is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.
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Happiness Quiet Reality Recognition Simplicity World
The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
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Business Customer Gold Man Place Rule
Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in.
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Choice Missing Opportunity Reaction
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
Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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Build Destroy Pessimist
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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Channel Greatness Man Power Success
There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
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Believe Conscious Ourselves
There is no medicine like hope.
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Hope Medicine One Liner
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
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
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
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
How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
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Development Man Myself Possible
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

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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