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" The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other. "

Orison Swett Marden

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" 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. "

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" The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous. "

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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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" A will finds a way. "

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" 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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" The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world. "

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

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" It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food. "

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" One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred. "

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" There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake. "

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" What is enthusiasm but a passionate belief in what seems to be a high and holy aim - an unselfish devotion to some noble cause - a consecration of heart and mind and soul to the attainment of a great object? "

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" Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. "

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" The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes. "

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" 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. "

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" 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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" You are never to allow a shadow of doubt to enter your mind that the Creator intended you to win in life's battle. "

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

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" I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it. "

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" Strength of will is the test of a young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip? "

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" Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. "

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" 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. "

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" There is not a single indication in man's wonderful mechanism that he was created for a life of poverty. There is something larger and grander for him in the divine plan than perpetual slavery to the bread-winning problem. "

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" 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. "

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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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" It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer. "

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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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" No man fails who does his best. "

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