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.
ORISON SWETT MARDENNo man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
More Orison Swett Marden Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.
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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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Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
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Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.
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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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Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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We lend power to the things we fear!
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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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