Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
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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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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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The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
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Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
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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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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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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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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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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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Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
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We lend power to the things we fear!
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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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There can be no life which does not contain something to be grateful for, and the habit of gratitude is one of the most powerful assets of success and happiness which can be named.
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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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