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People Who Have Accomplished Work Worthwhile Have Had A Very High Sense Of The Way To Do Things. They Have Not Been Content With Mediocrity. They Have Not Confined Themselves To The Beaten Tracks; They Have Never Been Satisfied To Do Things Just As Others So Them, But Always A Little Better. They Always Pushed Things That Came To Their Hands A Little Higher Up, This Little Farther On, That Counts In The Quality Of Life's Work. It Is Constant Effort To Be First-class In Everything One Attempts That Conquers The Heights Of Excellence.

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People Who Have Accomplished

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People Who Have Accomplished Work Worthwhile Have Had A Very High Sense Of The Way To Do Things. They Have Not Been Content With Mediocrity. They Have Not Confined Themselves To The Beaten Tracks; They Have Never Been Satisfied To Do Things Just As Others So Them, But Always A Little Better. They Always Pushed Things That Came To Their Hands A Little Higher Up, This Little Farther On, That Counts In The Quality Of Life's Work. It Is Constant Effort To Be First-class In Everything One Attempts That Conquers The Heights Of Excellence.

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The Lack Of Opportunity Is Ever The Excuse Of The Weak.

Whatever Comes To Us In Life We Create First In Our Mentality. As The Building Is A Reality In All Its Details In The Architects Mind Before A Stone Or Brick Is Laid, So We Create Mentally Everything Which Later Becomes A Reality In Our Achievement.

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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.

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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.

What Power Can Poverty Have Over A Home Where Loving Hearts Are Beating With A Consciousness Of Untold Riches Of The Head And Heart?

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 Unconquerable Will.

Unconquerable Will

When You Finish A Thing You Ought To Be Able To Say To Yourself: 'there, I Am Willing To Stand For That Piece Of Work. It Is Not Pretty Well Done; It Is Done As Well As I Can Do It; Done To A Complete Finish. I Will Stand For That. I Am Willing To Be Judged By It.'

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.

Conquer Yourself And You Can Conquer Everything Else.

Learn From Yesterday, Live For Today, Hope For Tomorrow.

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A Good System Shortens The Road To The Goal.

Paradise Is Here Or Nowhere: You Must Take Your Joy With You Or You Will Never Find It.

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Opportunity Is Latent In The Very Foundation Of Human Society. Opportunity Is Everywhere About Us. But The Preparation To Seize Upon The Opportunity, And To Make The Most Of It, Is To Be Made By Every One For Himself ... He Will Be Self-made Or Never Made.

Man Becomes A Slave To His Constantly Repeated Acts. What He At First Chooses, At Last Compels.

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Resolve That Whatever You Do, You Will Bring The Whole Man To It; That You Will Fling The Whole Weight Of Your Being Into It.

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.

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Real Happiness Is So Simple That Most People Do Not Recognize It. It Is Derived From The Simplest, The Quietest, The Most Unpretentious Things In The World.

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Money, Influence, And Position Are Nothing Compared With Brains, Principles, Energy And Perseverances.

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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.

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The Giants Of The Race Have Been Men Of Concentration, Who Have Struck Sledge-hammer Blows In One Place Until They Have Accomplished Their Purpose. The Successful Men Of Today Are Men Of One Overmastering Idea, One Unwavering Aim, Men Of Single And Intense Purpose.

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No Man Fails Who Does His Best.

We Cannot Separate Our Lives From Time. Why Is It That We Are So Extravagant, So Thoughtless, In Our Waste Of Time, Especially In Youth, When We Cling So Tenaciously To Life? You Cannot Separate A Wasted Hour From The Same Duration Of Your Life. If You Waste Your Time, You Must Waste Your Life. If You Improve Your Time, You Cannot Help Improving Your Life.

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There Is A Legend Of An Artist Who Long Sought For A Piece Of Sandalwood, Out Of Which To Carve A Madonna. He Was About To Give Up In Despair, Leaving The Vision Of His Life Unrealized, When In A Dream He Was Bidden To Carve His Madonna From A Block Of Oak Wood Which Was Destined For The Fire. He Obeyed And Produced A Masterpiece From A Log Of Common Firewood. Many Of Us Lose Great Opportunities In Life By Waiting To Find Sandalwood For Our Carvings, When They Really Lie Hidden In The Common Logs That We Burn.

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A Lobster, When Left High And Dry Among The Rock, Does Not Have The Sense Enough To Work His Way Back To The Sea, But Waits For The Sea To Come To Him. If It Does Not Come, He Remains Where He Is And Dies, Although The Slightest Effort Would Enable Him To Reach The Waves, Which Are Perhaps Within A Yard Of Him. The World Is Full Of Human Lobsters; People Stranded On The Rocks Of Indecision And Procrastination, Who, Instead Of Putting Forth Their Own Energies, Are Waiting For Some Grand Billow Of Good Fortune To Set Them Afloat.

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Absorb Knowledge From Every Possible Source And Opportunity. Power Gravitates To The Man Who Knows How And Why.

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There Is A Legend That When God Was Equipping Man For His Long Life Journey Of Exploration, The Attendant Good Angel Was About To Add The Gift Of Contentment And Complete Satisfaction. The Creator Stayed His Hand And Said, 'no, If You Bestow That Upon Him You Will Rob Him Forever Of All Joy Of Self-discovery.'

We Do Not Know What We Can Bear Until We Are Put To The Test. Many A Delicate Mother, Who Thought That She Could Not Survive The Death Of Her Children, Has Lived To Bury Her Husband And The Last One Of A Large Family, And In Addition To All This Has Seen Her Home And Last Dollar Swept Away; Yet She Has Had The Courage To Bear It All And To Go On As Before. When The Need Comes, There Is A Power Deep Within Us That Answers The Call.

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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.

Success Is The Child Of Drudgery And Perseverance. It Cannot Be Coaxed Or Bribed; Pay The Price And It Is Yours.

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Opportunity Is Coy, Is Swift, Is Gone, Before The Slow, The Unobservant, The Indolent, Or The Careless Can Seize Her.

The Glow Of Satisfaction Which Follows The Consciousness Of Doing Our Level Best Never Comes To A Human Being From Any Other Experience.

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Anybody Can Work When Everything Goes Smoothly, When There Is Nothing To Trouble Him; But A Man Must Be Made Of The Right Kind Of Stuff Who Can Rise Above The Things Which Harass And Handicap The Weak, And Do His Work In Spite Of Them. Indeed, This Is The Test Of Greatness.

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The Divine Injunction To Be Perfect, Even As He Is Perfect, Was Not Given Man To Mock Him. The Possibility Of Our Waking In His Likeness Is Literally True.

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The Inspiration Of A Single Book Has Made Preachers, Poets, Philosophers, Authors, And Statesmen. On The Other Hand, The Demoralization Of A Single Book Has Sometimes Made Infidels, Profligates, And Criminals.

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If You Do Not Feel Yourself Growing In Your Work And Your Life Broadening And Deepening, If Your Task Is Not A Perpetual Tonic To You, You Have Not Found Your Place.

We Fail To See That We Can Control Our Destiny; Make Ourselves Do Whatever Is Possible; Make Ourselves Become Whatever We Long To Be.

Life Is Not Mean, It Is Grand; If It Is Mean To Any, He Or She Makes It So. God Made It Glorious. It Is Paved With Diamonds; Its Banks He Fringed With Flowers. He Overarched It With Stars. Around It He Spread The Glory Of The Physical Universe-suns, Moon, Worlds, Constellations, Systems-all That Is Magnificent In Motion, Sublime In Magnitude, And Grand In Order And Obedience. God Would Not Have Attended Life With This Broad March Of Grandeur If It Did Not Mean Something.

If We Get The Good That Belongs To Us Here And Now, We Must Extract The Sweetness Of Each Passing Minute While It Is Ours. That Is The Real Art Of Living In The Today.

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.

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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How Can I Develop Myself Into The Grandest Possible Manhood?

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Talk Happiness. The World Is Sad Enough Without Your Woe.

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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.

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Every Germ Of Goodness Will At Last Struggle Into Bloom And Fruitage...true Success Follows Every Right Step.

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Every Experience In Life, Everything With Which We Have Come In Contact In Life, Is A Chisel Which Has Been Cutting Away At Our Life Statue, Molding, Modifying, Shaping It. We Are Part Of All We Have Met. Everything We Have Seen, Heard, Felt Or Thought Has Had Its Hand In Molding Us, Shaping Us.

Achievement Is Not Always Success, While Reputed Failure Often Is. It Is Honest Endeavor, Persistent Effort To Do The Best Possible Under Any And All Circumstances.

There Is No Medicine Like Hope.

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.

It Is Those Who Have This Imperative Demand For The Best In Their Natures, And Who Will Accept Nothing Short Of It, That Holds The Banners Of Progress, That Set The Standards, The Ideals, For Others.

Obstacles Are Like Wild Animals. They Are Cowards But They Will Bluff You If They Can. If They See You Are Afraid Of Them... They Are Liable To Spring Upon You; But If You Look Them Squarely In The Eye, They Will Slink Out Of Sight.

Our Thoughts Are Like Roots Which Reach Out In Every Direction Into The Cosmic Ocean Of Formless Energy, And These Thought-roots Set In Motion Vibrations Like Themselves And Attract The Affinities Of Our Desires And Ambitions.

You Must Bring Every Particle Of Your Energy, Unanswerable Resolution, Your Best Efforts, Your Persistent Industry To Your Task Or The Best Will Not Come Out Of You. You Must Back Up Your Ambition By Your Whole Nature, By Unbounded Enthusiasm And A Determination To Win Which Knows No Failure.

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.

There's No Grander Sight In The World Than That Of A Person Fired With A Great Purpose, Dominated By One Unwavering Aim.

Concentrate . . . For The Greatest Achievements Are Reserved For The Man Of Single Aim, In Whom No Rival Powers Divide The Empire Of The Soul.

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.

No One Has A Corner On Success. It Is His Who Pays The Price.

It Is Like The Seed Put In The Soil - The More One Sows, The Greater The Harvest.

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.

We Make The World We Live In And Shape Our Own Environment.

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.

Our Thoughts And Imaginations Are The Only Real Limits To Our Possibilities.

To Think You Can Creates The Force That Can.

He Can Who Thinks He Can, And He Can't Who Thinks He Can't.

Defeats And Failures Are Great Developers Of Character. They Have Made The Giants Of Our Race By Giving Titanic Muscles, Brawny Sinews, And Far-reaching Intellects.

It Is Psychological Law That Whatever We Desire To Accomplish We Must Impress Upon The Subjective Or Subconscious Mind.

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.

Our Trials, Our Sorrows, And Our Grieves Develop Us.

There Can Be No Failure To A Man Who Has Not Lost His Courage, His Character, His Self Respect, Or His Self-confidence. He Is Still A King.

Whatever Our Creed, We Feel That No Good Deed Can By Any Possibility Go Unrewarded, No Evil Deed Unpunished.

Believe With All Your Heart That You Will Do What You Were Made To Do.

Our Destiny Changes With Our Thought; We Shall Become What We Wish To Become, Do What We Wish To Do, When Our Habitual Thought Corresponds With Our Desire.

One Of The Best Strengtheners Of Character And Developers Of Stamina ... Is To Assume The Part You Wish To Play; To Assert Stoutly The Possession Of Whatever You Lack.

Good Cheer Is A Great Lubricant; It Oils All Of Life's Machinery.

A Great Many People Never Really Discover Themselves Until Ruin Stares Them In The Face. They Do Not Seem To Know How To Bring Out Their Reserves Until They Are Overtaken By An Overwhelming Disaster, Or Until The Sight Of Their Blighted Prospects And Of The Wreck Of Their Homes And Happiness Stirs Them To The Very Center Of Their Beings.... There Is Something In Defeat Which Puts New Determination Into A Man Of Mettle.

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 Mill Cannot Grind With The Water That Has Passed.

The Wearer Of Smiles And The Bearer Of A Kindly Disposition Needs No Introduction, But Is Welcome Anywhere.

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.

Joyfulness Keeps The Heart And Face Young.

There Is No Law By Which One Can, As Long As He Thinks He Can't.

What Are Stumbling Blocks And Defeat To The Weak And Vacillating Are But Stepping Stones To Victory To The Determined Soul.

The First Part Of Success Is 'get-to-it-iveness'; The Second Part Of Success Is 'stick-to-it-iveness'.

Motivational Sales

What We Sincerely Believe Regarding Ourselves Is True For Us.

Self-confidence Carries Conviction; It Makes Other People Believe In Us.

Self Confidence

Opportunities? They Are All Around Us ... There Is Power Lying Latent Everywhere Waiting For The Observant Eye To Discover It.

All Men Who Have Achieved Great Things Have Been Great Dreamers.

Positive Thinking

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.

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.

You Will Find The Whole World Will Change To You When You Change Your Attitude Toward It.

What A Great Discrepancy There Is Between People And The Results They Achieve! It Is Due To The Difference In Their Power Of Calling Together All The Rays Of Their Ability, And Concentrating Them Upon One Point.

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.

We Cannot Rise Higher Than Our Thought Of Ourselves.

Self-control Is The Very Essence Of Character. To Be Able To Look A Man Straight In The Eye, Calmly And Deliberately, Without The Slightest Ruffle Of Temper Under Extreme Provocation, Gives A Sense Of Power Which Nothing Else Can Give. To Feel That You Are Always, Not Sometimes, Master Of Yourself, Gives A Dignity And Strength To Character, Buttresses It, Supports It On Every Side, As Nothing Else Can. This Is The Culmination Of Thought Mastery.

It Is Just The Little Touches After The Average Man Would Quit That Make The Master's Fame.

No One Should Voluntarily Remain In An Environment Which Prevents His Development.

Be Larger Than Your Task.

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.

Most Of Our Obstacles Would Melt Away If, Instead Of Cowering Before Them, We Should Make Up Our Minds To Walk Boldly Through Them.

The Power Of Material Things, To Bestow Happiness, To Bring Joy Into The Life Is Tremendously Exaggerated. But The Right Mental Attitude For Example Gratitude That Things Are Not Worse, The Trained Mind The Right Habits Of Thought - Lifeskills, Will Bring To Us The Best There Is In The Universe.

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.

Power Gravitates To The Man Who Knows How.

Laughter Brightens The Eye, Increases The Perspiration, Expands The Chest, Forces The Poisoned Air From The Least-used Cells, And Tends To Restore That Exquisite Poise Or Balance Which We Call Health.

No Matter How Humble Your Work May Seem, Do It In The Spirit Of An Artist, Of A Master. In This Way You Lift It Out Of Commonness And Rob It Of What Would Otherwise Be Drudgery.

Doing Common Things Uncommonly Well.

Most Men Fail, Not Through Lack Of Education Or Agreeable Personal Qualities, But From Lack Of Dogged Determination, From Lack Of Dauntless Will.

Ambition Is The Incentive That Makes Purpose Great And Achievement Greater!

Without Continuous Effort There Cannot Be Continuous Achievement.

Continuous Effort

The Trouble With Us Is That We Expect Too Much From The Great Happenings, The Unusual Things, And We Overlook The Common Flowers On The Path Of Life, From Which We Might Abstract Sweets, Comforts, Delights.

Fear Is A Great Robber Of Power. It Paralyzes The Thinking Faculties, Ruins Spontaneity, Enthusiasm, And Self Confidence. It Has A Blighting Effect Upon All One's Thoughts, Moods, And Efforts. It Destroys Ambition And Efficiency.

Self Confidence

Opportunity Is Often Missed Because We Are Broadcasting When We Should Be Tuning In

The Waste Of Life Occasioned By Trying To Do Too Many Things At Once Is Appalling.

It Is Just The Little Difference Between The Good And The Best That Makes The Difference Between The Artist And The Artisan. It Is Just The Little Touches After The Average Man Would Quit That Makes The Master's Fame.

Mirth Is God's Medicine; Everybody Ought To Bathe In It. Grim Care, Moroseness, Anxiety-all The Rust Of Life- Ought To Be Scoured Off By The Oil Of Mirth.

A Man Will Remain A Rag-picker As Long As He Has Only The Vision Of A Rag-picker.

Every One Who Has Labored Honestly In The Past Has Aided To Place Knowledge And Comfort Within The Reach Of A Constantly Increasing Number.

Let Us Open Up Our Natures, Throw Wide The Doors Of Our Hearts And Let In The Sunshine Of Good Will And Kindness.

The Best Thing About Giving Of Ourselves Is That What We Get Is Always Better Than What We Give. The Reaction Is Greater Than The Action.

Put The Uncommon Effort Into The Common Task... Make It Large By Doing It In A Great Way.

We Lift Ourselves By Our Own Thought; We Climb Upon Our Vision Of Ourselves.

Analyzing What You Haven't Got As Well As What You Have Is A Necessary Ingredient Of A Career.

Obstacles Will Look Large Or Small To You According To Whether You Are Large Or Small.

The Successful Men Of Today Are Men Of One Overmastering Idea, One Unwavering Aim, Men Of Single And Intense Purpose.

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.

Every Thought Which Enters The Mind, Every Word We Utter, Every Deed We Perform, Makes Its Impression Upon The Inmost Fiber Of Our Being And The Result Of These Impressions Is Our Character. The Study Of Books, Of Music, Or Of The Fine Arts Is Not Essential To A Lofty Character. It Rests With The Worker Whether A Rude Piece Of Marble Shall Be Squared Into A Horse-block Or Carved Into An Apollo, A Psyche, Or A Venus Di Milo. It Is Yours, If You Choose, To Develop A Spiritual Form More Beautiful Than Any Of These, Instinct With Immortal Life, Refulgent With All The Glory Of Character.

Something Greater Than Wealth, Grander Even Than Fame — That Manhood, Character, Stand For Success, And That Nothing Else Really Does.

One Penny May Seem To You A Very Insignificant Thing, But It Is The Small Seed From Which Fortunes Spring.

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Aspiration Lifts The Life; Groveling Lowers It. When We Are Striving For Excellence In Everything We Do The Entire Life Grows And Expands, But If We Allow Our Standards To Drop, There Is A Natural Progression That Follows, A Tendency For A Downward Effort In All That We Do Thereafter.

The Hopeful Man Sees Success Where Others See Failure, Sunshine Where Others See Shadows And Storm.

Thrift Means That You Should Always Have The Best You Can Possibly Afford, When The Thing Has Any Reference To Your Physical And Mental Health, To Your Growth In Efficiency And Power.

Put Yourself In Your Customer's Place.

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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.

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.

Every Child Should Be Taught To Expect Success

The Greatest Trouble With Most Of Us Is That Our Demands Upon Ourselves Are So Feeble, The Call Upon The Great Within Of Us So Weak And Intermittent That It Makes No Impression Upon The Creative Energies; It Lacks The Force That Transmutes Desires Into Realities.

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