Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
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Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.Orison Swett Marden
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.
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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When a man feels throbbing within him, the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say 'amen' to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, this is happiness, this is success.
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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.
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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
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