A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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A will finds a way.
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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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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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Be larger than your task.
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Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
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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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Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
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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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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
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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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Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
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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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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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No man fails who does his best.
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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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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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Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
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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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The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
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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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The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.
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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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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 waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
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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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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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There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
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There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
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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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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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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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We fail to see that we can control our own destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
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We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
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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?
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Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
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You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
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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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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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