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No tyranny of circumstances can permanently imprison a determined will.
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Failure often leads a man to success by arousing his latent energy, by firing a dormant purpose, by awakening powers which were sleeping.
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Great men never wait for opportunities; they make them.
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Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough.
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Genius unexecuted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
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No one will insist upon your rights while you yourself doubt that you have any.
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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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To stick to a thing till you are master, is a test of intellectual discipline and power.
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The athlete trains for his race; and the mind must be put into training if one will win life's race.
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Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.
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It is continuity of purpose alone that achieves results.
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Many of us imprison ourselves in the narrow limited poverty thought, and then, like caged eagles trying in vain to get free, we beat out our wings against the bars we have ourselves put up.
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Uncertainty gives fear a chance to get in its deadly work on the imagination and make cowards of us.
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Every person who amounts to anything feels within himself a power which is ever pushing him on and urging him to perpetual improvement.
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It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins.
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Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.
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No matter if you have lost your property, your health, your reputation even, there is always hope for the man who keeps a firm faith in himself and looks up.
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All our limitations are in our own minds, the supply is there waiting in vast abundance.
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When the need comes, there is a power deep within us that answers the call.
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Success is jealous of scattered energies.
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Success is the child of two very plain parents--punctuality and accuracy.
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No one can pursue a worthy object steadily and persistently with all the powers of his mind, and yet make his life a failure.
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Great tenacity of purpose is the only thing that will carry you over the hard places which appear in every career to ultimate triumph.
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Do not brood over the past, or dream of the future, but seize the instant and get your lesson from the hour.
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The present time is the raw material out of which we make whatever we will.