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" He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others. "
Orison Swett Marden
Seed
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Will
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" There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give? "
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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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" 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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" The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart. "
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Reach
Higher
" Our dreaming capacity gives us a peep into the glorious realities that await us further on. It is the evidence of things possible to us. "
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" There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands. "
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" It is every one's sacred duty to keep himself in a condition to do the biggest thing possible to him. "
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" Open eyes will discover opportunities everywhere; open ears will never fail to detect the cries of those who are perishing for assistance; open hearts will never want for worthy objects upon which to bestow their gifts; open hands will never lack for noble work to do. "
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Work
Want
" 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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You
Brain
" What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity. "
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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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Long
Possible
" There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us. "
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Consciousness
Believe
Knowing
" Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way. "
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Task
Effort
Great
" 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. "
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Strong
Own
Man
" Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world. "
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Habit
Alone
" The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.' "
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Man
" There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. "
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Tomorrow
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" Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument. "
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Future
Will
" We make the world we live in and shape our own environment. "
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Live
World
" The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment. "
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Rise
Environment
Conquer
" We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out. "
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Face
" More men are ruined by underestimating the value of money than by overestimating it. Let us, then, abandon the affectation of despising money, and frankly own its value. "
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Men
Own
" There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring. "
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Anything
Mind
" Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people. "
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People
" If our dreams are sincere desires to achieve, not mere pipe-dreams, there is something deep within ourselves which comes out to meet them and helps to make them realities. "
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Achieve
Deep
" It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest. "
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