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 MARDENReal 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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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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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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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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Opportunities? They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
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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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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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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
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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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Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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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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Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being.
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Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
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We lend power to the things we fear!
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