It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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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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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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Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
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We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.
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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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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?
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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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It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.
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Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.
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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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Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality… that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence.
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