It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
ORISON SWETT MARDENObstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
More Orison Swett Marden Quotes
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Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being.
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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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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.
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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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He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t.
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Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.
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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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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
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Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.
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There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
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A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
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We lend power to the things we fear!
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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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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
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