When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.
ORISON SWETT MARDENFind 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.
More Orison Swett Marden Quotes
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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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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 woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to herself the creative powers of the universe.
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Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
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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.
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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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Opportunities? They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
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What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.
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Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.
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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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There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
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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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Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
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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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But how shall I get ideas? ”Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind – Act!
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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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To think you can creates the force that can.
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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.
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There is no medicine like hope.
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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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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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What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.
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He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t.
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