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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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" Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do. Never for an instant harbor a doubt of it. "

" Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him. "

" 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. "

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

" When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave. "

" When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time. "

" One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book. "

" The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do. "

" Nearly all the great improvements, discoveries, inventions, and achievements which have elevated and blessed humanity have been the triumphs of enthusiasm. "

" Golden opportunities are nothing to laziness, but industry makes the commonest chances golden. "

" When the sacredness of one's word is matched in the attributes of his character throughout, all that constitutes a man, then we find that there is something in a man's life greater than his occupation or his achievements; grander than acquisition or wealth; higher than genius; more enduring than fame. "

" The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands. "

" The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements. "

Orison Swett Marden

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

" 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. "

" All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. "

" 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. "

" Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way. "

" 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. "

" The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty. "

" 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. "

" The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor. "

" Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed, and that success is not for you, as a traitor, and expel it from your mind as you would a thief from your house. "

" The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling. "

" Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people. "

" He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning. "

" Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it. "

" 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. "

" No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else. "