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!
ORISON SWETT MARDENWhat are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.
More Orison Swett Marden Quotes
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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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Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
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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.
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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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Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark.
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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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A woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to herself the creative powers of the universe.
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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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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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We lend power to the things we fear!
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There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can’t.
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There is no medicine like hope.
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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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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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