Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
ORISON SWETT MARDENWe win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.
More Orison Swett Marden Quotes
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The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
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There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
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The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
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Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.
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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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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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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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Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
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Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.
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Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.
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Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in.
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