Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.
ORISON SWETT MARDENYou cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
More Orison Swett Marden Quotes
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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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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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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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Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep the wolf from the door.
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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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You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.
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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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We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.
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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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How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
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Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
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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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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can’t.
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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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