Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.
ORISON SWETT MARDENDon’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
More Orison Swett Marden Quotes
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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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He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t.
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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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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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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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Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made.
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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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You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.
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Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
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Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.
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There is no medicine like hope.
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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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The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
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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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