“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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“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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“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.”
Source: The Optimistic Life
“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.”
“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 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.”
Source: Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate
“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.”
“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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“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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“We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.”
“What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.”
Source: Exceptional Employee
“Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.”
“Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.”
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“A woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to herself the creative powers of the universe.”
“Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.”
Source: The Miracle of Right Thought
“Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say "No," though all the world say "Yes.”
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“Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence.”
“Money, influence, and position are nothing compared with brains, principles, energy and perseverances.”
“You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.”
Source: He Can Who Thinks He Can, and Other Papers on Success in Life: From the Renowned Author of Inspirational Works like How to Get what You Want, Prosperity and How to Get It, The Miracles of Right Thought, Self-Investment and Masterful Personality
“He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't.”
Source: An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success
“When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.”
Source: The Optimistic Life
“The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.”
“As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure”
“Power gravitates to the man who knows how.”
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“There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.”
“We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.”
“No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more - to be happy and successful - than much money.”
Source: The Optimistic Life
“To think you can creates the force that can.”
Source: Heading for Victory: Or, Getting the Most Out of Life
“How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles, the air seems more balmy, the sky clearer, the earth has a brighter green... the flowers are more fragrant... and the sun, moon, and stars all appear more beautiful, and seem to rejoice with us.”
“Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage...true success follows every right step.”
“It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.”
Source: The Wisdom of Orison Swett Marden
“The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity, an opportunity to be polite, an opportunity to be manly, an opportunity to be honest, an opportunity to make friends.”
Source: The Wisdom of Orison Swett Marden
“A good system shortens the road to the goal.”
“There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor, the conquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.”
“We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.”
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“They may well fear fate who have any infirmity of habit or aim: but they who rest on what is have a destiny beyond destiny, and can make mouths of fortune.”
“Live and let live is not enough; live and help live is not too much.”
“Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.”
Source: The Wisdom of Orison Swett Marden
“Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.”
Source: Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate
“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. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him.”
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“If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could throw us off our center, so that no matter what misfortune should overtake us, there would still be a whole magnificent man or woman left after being stripped of everything else.”
“Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.”
“You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company - a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.”
“Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.”
Source: Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate
“The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.”
Source: An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success
“Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.”
Source: The Miracle of Right Thought
“It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.”
Source: The Optimistic Life
“The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities. She will strip us of wealth, humble our pride, humiliate our ambition, let us down from the ladder of fame, will discipline us in a thousand ways, if she can develop a little character. Everything must give way to that. Wealth is nothing, position is nothing, fame is nothing, manhood is everything.”
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“The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of the weak.”
Source: Hour of Opportunity
“We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.”
Source: Peace, Power, and Plenty
