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We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.

Orison Swett Marden

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.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Expectation Honesty Yourself
Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Brain Local Thinking Trouble Worry
Obstacles 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.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Afraid Animal Eyes Obstacle Wild Yourself
Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Beginning Grand Possible Time Work
There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Believe Conscious Ourselves
Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Goodness Greatness Life Machine
Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Build Destroy Pessimist
The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Business Customer Gold Man Place Rule
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.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Inspirational Life Purpose Try Way Yourself
Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. It is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Happiness Quiet Reality Recognition Simplicity World
Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Common Effort Greatness Way
Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Choice Himself Man Repeat Slave
Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Children Perseverance Price Success Yourself
The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Atmosphere Best Breathe High Plane Purity
Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Conquer Control Power Yourself
Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Imagination Inspirational Limitation Ourselves Possible Reality Thinking

We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.

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