Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
ORISON SWETT MARDENObstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
More Orison Swett Marden Quotes
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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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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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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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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
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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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Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
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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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You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.
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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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Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in.
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We lend power to the things we fear!
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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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Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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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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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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