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Obstacles 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.

Orison Swett Marden

Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Goodness Greatness Life Machine
If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Life Thinking Yourself
Opportunities? They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Discover Eyes Lying Opportunity Power
There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Believe Conscious Ourselves
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 MARDEN

Inspirational Life Purpose Try Way Yourself
The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into it, has not learned the first principles of success or happiness.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Happiness Learning Man Principle Secret Soul
The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Decision Quality Run Value Work World
Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
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Large Obstacle Small Yourself
The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Atmosphere Best Breathe High Plane Purity
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.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Excellence Hands Mindset Quality Stand
Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Brain Local Thinking Trouble Worry
We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Battle Mindset Ourselves World
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Greatness Hope Medicine Tomorrow
Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Imagination Inspirational Limitation Ourselves Possible Reality Thinking
It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Easy Ourselves Willing
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.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Failure Himself Measurement

Obstacles 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.

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Obstacles 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.

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