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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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Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough.
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All our limitations are in our own minds, the supply is there waiting in vast abundance.
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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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When the need comes, there is a power deep within us that answers the call.
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It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins.
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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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The present time is the raw material out of which we make whatever we will.