Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.
ORISON SWETT MARDENLearn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
More Orison Swett Marden Quotes
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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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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
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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 must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
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Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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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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Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
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