A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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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The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
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The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
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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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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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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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Most 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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Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.
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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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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
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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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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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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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Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
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