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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. "

Orison Swett Marden

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" Unless generosity of spirit prevails among men, there can never be upon earth an ideal life. "

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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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" Nothing that the mind of man can conceive is impossible. "

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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 cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them. "

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" We make the world we live in and shape our own environment. "

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" A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system; work keeps it in health and order. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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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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" 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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" One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing. "

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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "

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" No man fails who does his best. "

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" One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one's capacity for happiness, but also one's efficiency. "

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" Necessity has been a priceless spur which has helped men to perform miracles against incredible odds. "

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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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" Never allow yourself to dwell upon your weaknesses, deficiencies, or failures. Holding firmly the ideal and struggling vigorously to attain it will help you to realize it. "

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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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" 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. "

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