This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?
ORISON SWETT MARDENTalk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
More Orison Swett Marden Quotes
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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.
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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 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.
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To think you can creates the force that can.
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The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into it, has not learned the first principles of success or happiness.
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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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Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being.
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He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t.
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There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
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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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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
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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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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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Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
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