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.
ORISON SWETT MARDENHow can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
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To think you can creates the force that can.
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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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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 is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can’t.
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Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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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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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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The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
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It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.
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Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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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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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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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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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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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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