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 MARDENLearn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
More Orison Swett Marden Quotes
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Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say “No,” though all the world say “Yes.
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He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t.
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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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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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Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
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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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Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.
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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 successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
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How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
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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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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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Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.
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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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Opportunities? They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
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