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The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

Orison Swett Marden

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.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Chance Education Greatness Preparation Profit Yourself
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
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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Achievement Dreams Greatness Man
Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
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Goodness Greatness Life Machine
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
To think you can creates the force that can.
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Creation Force Thinking Yourself
You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.
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Attitude World Yourself
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
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
Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
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Expectation Honesty Yourself
No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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Himself Pay Price Success
Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.
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Brain Local Thinking Trouble Worry
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
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 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.
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Alone Chance Environment Gold Opportunity Yourself
We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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Ourselves Rise Standard Thinking

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