This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?
ORISON SWETT MARDENIf you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
More Orison Swett Marden Quotes
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Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.
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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
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The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
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Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
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The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into it, has not learned the first principles of success or happiness.
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The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
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Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep the wolf from the door.
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Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
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Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.
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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
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There can be no life which does not contain something to be grateful for, and the habit of gratitude is one of the most powerful assets of success and happiness which can be named.
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The secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and can enjoy what others own.
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