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 MARDENTo think you can creates the force that can.
More Orison Swett Marden Quotes
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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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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.
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How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
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Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep the wolf from the door.
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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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The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
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Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.
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You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.
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Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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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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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.
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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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