Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
ORISON SWETT MARDENFind 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.
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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Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
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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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Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.
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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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All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
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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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If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
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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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Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.
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The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
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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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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
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There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can’t.
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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.
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