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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.

Orison Swett Marden

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Face Happiness Heart Ourselves Young
No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Ideal Man Place Success Weakness
But how shall I get ideas? ”Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind – Act!
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Ideas Mindset Observation Yourself
Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
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Goodness Greatness Life Machine
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Achievement Dreams Greatness Man
Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Gravitation Knowledge Possible Power Source
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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Failure Himself Measurement
We lend power to the things we fear!
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Fear One Liner Power
Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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Build Destroy Pessimist
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Enough Happiness Sad Yourself
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
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 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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Accomplishment Best Big Man Possible Quality Yourself
If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Life Thinking Yourself
Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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Man Opportunity Wait Weakness
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Confidence Courage Failure King Lost Man Respect

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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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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