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 MARDENThe 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.
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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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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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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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
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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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Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in.
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The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
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Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
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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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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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Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.
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Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being.
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