Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.
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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Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made.
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Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
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If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.
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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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Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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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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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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Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
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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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Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
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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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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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Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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