Orison Swett Marden on confidence
Orison Swett Marden79 quotes“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.”
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Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality… that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden A good system shortens the road to the goal.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden 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.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden 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 MardenOrison Swett Marden A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden We lend power to the things we fear!
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden 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 MardenOrison Swett Marden Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. It is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
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What can be more delightful than to have some one to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to yourself?
Marcus Tullius CiceroMarcus Tullius Cicero If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
Marcus Tullius CiceroMarcus Tullius Cicero The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humor.
Charles DickensCharles Dickens Even those virtues that nature had denied him were imitated by him so successfully that he won more confidence than those who actually possessed them.
PlutarchPlutarch It is only the belief and the confidence we have in a God why man is able to understand his own social institutions, and move and live like a rational human being.
Marcus GarveyMarcus Garvey If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.
Marcus GarveyMarcus Garvey I am welcoming a new phase of life with confidence in my potential to progress in spite of my fears.
Shelby EnsignShelby Ensign Do everything with love, do it because it gives you satisfaction and joy, do it because it feeds your soul, do it because it helps you grow and gives you that confidence in yourself we’re all after.
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