Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality… that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence.
ORISON SWETT MARDENObstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
More Orison Swett Marden Quotes
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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.
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Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
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To think you can creates the force that can.
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There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can’t.
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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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If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
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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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Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made.
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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
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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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Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark.
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Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
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People do not realise the immense value of utilising spare minutes.
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We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.
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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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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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There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
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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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Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
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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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All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
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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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