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.
ORISON SWETT MARDENPoverty 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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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
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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.
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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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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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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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A woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to herself the creative powers of the universe.
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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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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There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can’t.
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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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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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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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Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
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The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.
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