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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 great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them.
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The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
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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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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
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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 man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
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Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
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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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It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
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Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
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If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.
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Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted.
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Existence is the privilege of effort, and when that privilege is met like a man, opportunities to succeed along the line of your aptitude will come faster than you can use them.
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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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Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part.
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It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.
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Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.
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Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.
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You are never to allow a shadow of doubt to enter your mind that the Creator intended you to win in life's battle.
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No man fails who does his best.
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The world takes us at our own valuation. It believes in the man who believes in himself, but it has little use for the timid man: the one who is never certain of himself, who cannot rely on his own judgment, who craves advice from others, and is afraid to go ahead on his own account.
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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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What is needed by him who would succeed in the highest degree possible is careful planning. He is to accumulate reserved power, that he may be equal to all emergencies.
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