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

Orison Swett Marden

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" Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day. "

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

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" The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. "

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

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" To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success. "

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" No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation. "

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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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" The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone. "

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

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" History furnishes thousands of examples of men who have seized occasions to accomplish results deemed impossible by those less resolute. Prompt decision and whole-souled action sweep the world before them. "

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" The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision. "

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" Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness. "

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" Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal. "

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" True economy means the wisest expenditure of what we have, everything considered, looking at it from the broadest standpoint. It is not a good thing to save a nickel at the expenditure of twenty-five cents' worth of time. "

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" A good system shortens the road to the goal. "

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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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" 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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