Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.
ORISON SWETT MARDENThe Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
More Orison Swett Marden Quotes
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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?
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A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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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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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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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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Opportunities? They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
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Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in.
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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.
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Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
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Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
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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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We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.
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