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.
ORISON SWETT MARDENThe best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
More Orison Swett Marden Quotes
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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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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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There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can’t.
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Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
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Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.
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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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We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.
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We lend power to the things we fear!
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Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make 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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Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.
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Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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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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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
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The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
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Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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There is no medicine like hope.
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Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
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He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t.
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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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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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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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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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Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being.
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
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