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Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.

Orison Swett Marden

Unless 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.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Chance Education Greatness Preparation Profit Yourself
The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Greatness Man Possible Success World
It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Easy Ourselves Willing
Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep the wolf from the door.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Charm Greatness Poverty Struggle Time
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
What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Comfortable Effort Pay People Price Sacrifice Simplicity Willing
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

Afraid Animal Eyes Obstacle Wild Yourself
What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.
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Block Defeat Determination Soul Victory
You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Attitude World Yourself
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
This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Lost Man Material Test Yourself
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.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Feeling Happiness Man Possible Power Success
Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Balance Love Man Play Work
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.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Act Beginning Greatness Habit Repeat Thinking Time
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.
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Happiness Learning Man Principle Secret Soul
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.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Desire Destiny Habit Thinking

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