Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

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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