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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

There is no medicine like hope.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Hope Medicine One Liner
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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Bold Mindset Obstacle Ourselves Walk
But how shall I get ideas? ”Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind – Act!
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Ideas Mindset Observation 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
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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Happiness Learning Man Principle Secret Soul
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
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Encounter Measurement Struggle Success Yourself
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
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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Happiness Quiet Reality Recognition Simplicity World
Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
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Afraid Animal Eyes Obstacle Wild Yourself
If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
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Life Thinking Yourself
Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
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Future Hope Learning
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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Charm Greatness Poverty Struggle Time
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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Ideal Man Place Success Weakness
There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can’t.
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Himself Law Thinking
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
How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
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Development Man Myself Possible

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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