Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
ORISON SWETT MARDENBegin 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.
More Orison Swett Marden Quotes
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Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
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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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No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
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Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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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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Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.
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The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
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Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in.
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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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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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To think you can creates the force that can.
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Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.
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He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t.
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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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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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You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.
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Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.
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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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Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.
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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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Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.
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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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The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.
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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
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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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We lend power to the things we fear!
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