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" Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations. "

Orison Swett Marden

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" Our visions are the plans of the possible life structure, but they will end in plans if we do not follow them up with a vigorous effort to make them real, just as the architect's plans will end in his drawings if they are not followed up and made real by the builder. "

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" There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit. When the soul throws its windows wide open, letting in the sunshine, and presenting to all who see it the evidence of its gladness, it is not only happy, but it has an unspeakable power of doing good. "

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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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" Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns. "

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" Whatever you do, don't discourage your dreaming propensity. Your heart's desires are not empty vaporings. They foreshadow possible realities. Man was made to aspire, to look upward. "

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" The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you. "

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" The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them. "

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" We are all the products of our own thoughts. Whatever we concentrate upon, that we are. "

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" We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be. "

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" 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. "

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" The achievements of willpower are almost beyond computation. Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough. "

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" By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities. "

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" 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. "

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" Live in the very soul of expectation of better things, in the conviction that something large, grand, and beautiful will await you if your efforts are intelligent, if your mind is kept in a creative condition and you struggle upward to your goal. "

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" Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work. "

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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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" There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become. "

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" Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation. "

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" He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf, eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. "

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" He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others. "

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" There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us. "

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" With five chances on each hand and one unwavering aim, no boy, however poor, need despair. There is bread and success for every youth under the American flag who has energy and ability to seize his opportunity. "

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" It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest. "

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" If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become. "

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" The ability to cultivate friends is a powerful aid to success. It is capital which will stand by one when panics come, when banks fail, when business concerns go to the wall. "

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" If you would make the most of yourself, cut away all of your vitality sappers; get rid of everything which hampers you and holds you back, everything which wastes your energy, cuts down your working capital. Get freedom at any cost. "

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" To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success. "

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" A will finds a way. "

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" Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness. "

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