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 MARDENMake it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark.
More Orison Swett Marden Quotes
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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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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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Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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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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Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in.
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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.
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We lend power to the things we fear!
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Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.
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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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Opportunities? They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
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Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
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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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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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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
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