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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.

Orison Swett Marden

Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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Imagination Inspirational Limitation Ourselves Possible Reality Thinking
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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Feeling Happiness Man Possible Power Success
The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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Action Best Better Greatness Reaction
A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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Goal Goodness Road
Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say “No,” though all the world say “Yes.
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Afraid Individual Lose Man Talk World
Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality… that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence.
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Excellence Hands Mindset Quality Stand
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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Generosity Harvest Order Production
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
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Greatness Hope Medicine Tomorrow
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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Block Defeat Determination Soul Victory
No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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Himself Pay Price Success
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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Beginning Grand Possible Time Work
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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Accomplishment Best Big Man Possible Quality Yourself
What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.
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Comfortable Effort Pay People Price Sacrifice Simplicity Willing
We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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Ourselves Rise Standard Thinking
Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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Build Destroy Pessimist
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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Alone Chance Environment Gold Opportunity Yourself

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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