We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.

Orison Swett Marden
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  1. 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.

  2. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

  3. Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

  4. There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

  5. All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

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