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#1

“Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.”
― Orison Swett Marden

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#2

“When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.”
― Orison Swett Marden

tags: attitude, inspirational, life

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#3

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
― Plato, The Republic

tags: beginning, plato, republic

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#4

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: day, inspirational, judge, plant, reap, seed, seeds, sow

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#5

“Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: courage, fear, leadership, strength

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#6

“In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: good-and-evil, human-nature

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#7

“You cannot run away from a weakness, you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now and where you stand?”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

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#8

“The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of God just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain common work as it comes certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things of life.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

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#9

“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.”
― Orison Swett Marden, Learn to Expect a Great Deal of Life

tags: ability, capacity, courage, god, inspirational

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#10

“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.”
― Orison Swett Marden

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#11

“Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.”
― Orison Swett Marden

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#13

“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.”
― Orison Swett Marden

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#14

“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.”
― Orison Swett Marden

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#15

“Money, influence, and position are nothing compared with brains, principles, energy and perseverances.”
― Orison Swett Marden

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#16

“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.”
― Orison Swett Marden

tags: inspirational

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#17

“The greatest thing a man can possibly 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. It is not a question of what someone else can do or become which every youth should ask himself, but what can I do? How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?”
― Orison Swett Marden

tags: manhood, sucess

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#18

“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 desires”
― Orison Swett Marden

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#19

“Just because you are struggling on a farm or in a factory, doing something against which your whole nature rebels, because there is no one to help you support your aged parents or an invalid brother or sister, do not conclude that your vision must perish. Keep pushing on as best you can, and affirming your divine power to attain your desire. Hundreds and thousands of poor boys and girls with poorer opportunities than yours have done immortal deeds because they had faith in their ideal and in their power to attain it.”
― Orison Swett Marden, How to Get What You Want

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#20

“The tonic of success is a marvelous producer as well as stimulant. By the law of mental magnetism one success attracts another, and after we begin to win it is comparatively easy to keep on winning.”
― Orison Swett Marden

tags: mental-magnetism, success, winning

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#21

“What we do when defeat stares us in the face is the real touchstone of character. But the very fact that success has time and again proved the means of awakening people to the knowledge of greater ability than they ever before dreamed they possessed, ought to hearten and encourage us to keep on no matter how often we fail. If we brace ourselves and continue to push forward we will ultimately win out. (From Everybody ahead, or getting the most out of life)”
― Orison Swett Marden

tags: character, defeat, success

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#22

“Nothing is more foolish, nothing more wicked than to drag the skeletons of the past, the hideous images, the foolish deeds, the unfortunate experiences of yesterday into today's work to mar and spoil it. There are plenty of people who have been failures up to the present moment who could do wonders in the future if they only could forget the past, if they only had the ability to cut it off, to close the door on it forever and start anew.”
― Orison Swett Marden, Be Good To Yourself

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#23

“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.”
― Orison Swett Marden, Pushing to the Front

tags: inspiration, life, motivation, success

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#24

“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”
― Mark Twain

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#25

“The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt, but in spite of doubt. (p. 21)”
― Rollo May, The Courage to Create

tags: commitment, conviction, doubt

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#26

“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”
― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

tags: barriers, challenges, failure, failures, inspirational, perseverance

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#27

“The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: achieve, achievement, attitude, barriers, conflicts, defeat, doubt, dreams, egg, exist, existence, failure, fear, fearless, forgotten, greatness, heart, hesitation, life, mind, mind-power, motivation, obstacles, quotes, race, rat-race, resist, resistence, sperm, success, successful, victory, walls

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#28

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

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#29

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

tags: attributed-no-source, education

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#30

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain

tags: death, life

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#31

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
― Mark Twain

tags: greatness

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