The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
ORISON SWETT MARDENWe must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
More Orison Swett Marden Quotes
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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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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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Opportunities? They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
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Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
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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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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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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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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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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.
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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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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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You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.
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Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
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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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Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.
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