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 MARDENThere is no medicine like hope.
More Orison Swett Marden Quotes
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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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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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There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
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The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
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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.
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It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.
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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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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.
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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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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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How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
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Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.
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