What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.
ORISON SWETT MARDENHow can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
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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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Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
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If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
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How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
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Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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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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To think you can creates the force that can.
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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.
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Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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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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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 Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
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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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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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