"Your diamonds are not in far distant mountains or in yonder seas; they are in your own backyard, if you but dig for them."
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"You can journey to the ends of the earth in search of success, but if you’re lucky, you will discover happiness in your own backyard."
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"So, if you feel a smile begin, don't leave it undetected, let's start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected!"
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"Let every man or woman here remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia."
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"Money is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. I say, get rich, get rich!"
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"No matter what you do, do it to your utmost. I always attribute my success to always requiring myself to do my level best, if only in driving a tack in straight."
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"When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer."
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"Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it."
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"Greatness really consists in doing some great deed with little means."
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"Let us remember there is not a poor person in the United States who was not made poor by his own shortcomings."
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"Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life."
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"I ask not for a larger garden, but for finer seeds."
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"Ninety-eight out of 100 of the rich men in America are honest. That is why they are rich."
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"Love is the grandest thing on God's earth, but fortunate the lover who has plenty of money."
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"Money is power, and you ought to be reasonably ambitious to have it."
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"Money is power, money is force, money will do good as harm. In the hands of good men and women it could accomplish, and it has accomplished, good."
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"Begin where you are and what you are."
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"There is wealth within the sound of your voice."
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