Go-at-it-iveness is the first requisite for success. Stick-to-it-iveness is the second.
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Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.
The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
No one should voluntarily remain in an environment which prevents his development.
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.
Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
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.
There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.
