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" Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances. "
Best
Success
Failure
" A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements. "
Struggle
Success
Battle
" A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system; work keeps it in health and order. "
Week
Day
More
" A good system shortens the road to the goal. "
System
Road
Good
" All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. "
Great Things
Imagination
Men
" 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. "
Sometimes
Aim
Goal
" Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career. "
Career
Necessary
Got
" A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires. "
Strong
Own
Man
" A will finds a way. "
Finds
Way
Will
" Be larger than your task. "
Task
Your
Than
" Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do. Never for an instant harbor a doubt of it. "
Believe
Never
You
" By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities. "
Excellence
Our
Clear
" Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work. "
True
Character
People
" Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations. "
Personality
Gift
Divine
" Circumstances have rarely favored great men. A lowly beginning is no bar to a great career. The boy who works his way through college may have a hard time of it, but he will learn how to work his way in life, and will usually take higher rank in school and in after life than his classmate who is the son of a millionaire. "
Time
Work
Son
" Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action. "
Deep
Man
Dwell
" Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people. "
Happiness
Self-Confidence
People
" Do not give up your dream because it is apparently not being realized, because you cannot see it coming true. Cling to your vision with all the tenacity you can muster. Keep it bright; do not let the bread-and-butter side of life cloud your ideal or dim it. "
Cloud
You
Vision
" Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you. "
Best
Great
Life
" Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them. "
Strong
Men
Weak
" Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy. "
Quality
You
Brain
" Enthusiasm will steady the heart and strengthen the will; it will give force to the thought and nerve to the hand until what was only a possibility becomes a reality. "
Reality
Enthusiasm
Heart
" Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted. "
Good Things
Good
World
" Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part. "
Ambition
Successful
Trying
" Every man ultimately falls into the company with which he affiliates. And he is the strongest who draws men to himself, who creates the company; and this is through having a positive quality - courage and physical prowess. "
Quality
Courage
Man
" Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question. "
Man
Young
College
" Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him. "
World
Most
Out
" Existence is the privilege of effort, and when that privilege is met like a man, opportunities to succeed along the line of your aptitude will come faster than you can use them. "
Opportunities
Effort
Succeed
" Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. "
Flowers
Clouds
Stars
" Form the habit early in life of leaving your business at the store or wherever you may be employed. Never carry it home to mar the peace of your family; if you do, you will soon drive out the sunshine. "
Life
You
Business
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