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A man who keeps swinging a sledge‑hammer at one spot shows the power of single‑minded concentration. The quotes say that without dogged determination or a deep connection to other people, even the smartest person can stall. They also remind us that failures become useful when we learn from them and keep adding tiny efforts after most give up.

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Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.

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A man will remain a rag-picker as long as he has only the vision of a rag-picker.

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The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

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Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

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The world makes way for the man with an idea.

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Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

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The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.

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As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure

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The moment man cuts himself off from living connection with the human race and its needs, he begins to die from poor…

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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…

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The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.

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Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.

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A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel…

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It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.

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The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure…

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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…

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Even the men most richly endowed with ability, education, and opportunity, even the giants of the race, after the completest life possible,…

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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…

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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…

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Society is to the individual what the sun and showers are to the seed. It develops him, expands him, unfolds him, calls…

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No man can hope to accomplish anything great in this world until he throws his whole soul, flings the force of his…

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No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly,…

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To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The…

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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches…

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Self-Control is the very essence of character. To be able to look a man straight in the eye, calmly and deliberately, without…

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A great many people never really discover themselves until ruin stares them in the face. They do not seem to know how…

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He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with…

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Success is in the student, not in the university; greatness is in the individual, not in the library; power is in the…

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If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we…

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Men are naturally lazy, and require some great stimulus to goad their flagging ambitions and enable them to overcome the inertia which…

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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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Resolve that whatever you do, you will bring the whole man to it; that you will fling the whole weight of your…

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Concentrate . . . for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide…

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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…

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Let your air be that of a winner, a man who is resolved to make his way in the world, to make…

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The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into…

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Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would…

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You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to…

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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…

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“We tend to get what we expect, and if we expect nothing we get nothing. The stream cannot rise higher than its fountainhead;”

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There never will be a trust in excellence or a combination in superiority. As long as you can do a thing a little better…

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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you…

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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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Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.

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“The universe is one great kindergarten. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the…

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If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.

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The moment man cuts himself off from living connection with the human race and its needs, he begins to die from poor circulation.

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“There is something inside of a man which protests against doing that which tends to injure another, that which does not square with his…

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A good system shortens the road to the goal.

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Keep fear out of your child's mind, as you would keep poison out of his body; for fear is the deadliest of mental poisons.

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