Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
ORISON SWETT MARDENOpportunities? They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
More Orison Swett Marden Quotes
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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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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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Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being.
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We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.
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The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
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People do not realise the immense value of utilising spare minutes.
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He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t.
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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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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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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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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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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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Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in.
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