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.
ORISON SWETT MARDENUnless 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.
More Orison Swett Marden Quotes
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We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.
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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.
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If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
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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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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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To think you can creates the force that can.
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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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You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
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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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How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
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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 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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The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
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The secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and can enjoy what others own.
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The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
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