Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.
ORISON SWETT MARDENPut the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.
ORISON SWETT MARDENPessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
ORISON SWETT MARDENThere are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
ORISON SWETT MARDENOur destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
ORISON SWETT MARDENMake it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark.
ORISON SWETT MARDENWhat are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.
ORISON SWETT MARDENA 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.
ORISON SWETT MARDENThe 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.
ORISON SWETT MARDENWe win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.
ORISON SWETT MARDENWe cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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.
ORISON SWETT MARDENThe golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
ORISON SWETT MARDENSuccess is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.
ORISON SWETT MARDENJust 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.
ORISON SWETT MARDENGood cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
ORISON SWETT MARDENThe 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.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN