Orison Swett Marden on desire
Orison Swett Marden79 quotes“Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.”
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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say “No,” though all the world say “Yes.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden 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.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden 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 MardenOrison Swett Marden This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden 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.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden There is no medicine like hope.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden 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.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden 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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You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
AristotleAristotle Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.
Rosa ParksRosa Parks Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.
PlatoPlato Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
PlatoPlato The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Walt WhitmanWalt Whitman Nothing is impossible to the person who backs desire with enduring faith.
Napoleon HillNapoleon Hill Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no one can bear it. Everyone desires love but also finds it impossible to believe that he deserves it.
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