We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.
ORISON SWETT MARDENIt is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
More Orison Swett Marden Quotes
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Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark.
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Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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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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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can’t.
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Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
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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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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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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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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.
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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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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