Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

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

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

- Orison Swett Marden

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"Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities."

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"Most obstacles melt away when we make up our minds to walk boldly through them."

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"Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."

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