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.
ORISON SWETT MARDENMost men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.
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Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
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Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.
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Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
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The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
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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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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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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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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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No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
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What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.
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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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We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
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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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Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
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Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.
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