To think you can creates the force that can.
ORISON SWETT MARDENMost of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
More Orison Swett Marden Quotes
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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.
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If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
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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.
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He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t.
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The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
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Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
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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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Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.
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We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.
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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.
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Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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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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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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All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
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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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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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We lend power to the things we fear!
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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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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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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.
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The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
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A woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to herself the creative powers of the universe.
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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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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!
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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.
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