Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.
ORISON SWETT MARDENThe beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.
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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.
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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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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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He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t.
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Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being.
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.
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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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People do not realise the immense value of utilising spare minutes.
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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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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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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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Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.
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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
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