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" What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart? "

Orison Swett Marden

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" The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy. "

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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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" No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career. "

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" Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument. "

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" Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them. "

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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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" The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment. "

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

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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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" Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us. "

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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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" You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else. "

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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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" Many a man owes his advancement very largely to his ability to converse well. The ability to interest people in your conversation, to hold them, is a great power. "

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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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" Every man ultimately falls into the company with which he affiliates. And he is the strongest who draws men to himself, who creates the company; and this is through having a positive quality - courage and physical prowess. "

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" 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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