Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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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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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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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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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Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
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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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Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark.
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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 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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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
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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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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?
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Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in.
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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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Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.
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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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Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
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Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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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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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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We lend power to the things we fear!
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Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
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Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
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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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