Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
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What a great discrepancy there is between men and the results they achieve It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability and concentrating them upon one point.Orison Swett Marden
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
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Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.
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The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
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