The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
ORISON SWETT MARDENThere is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
More Orison Swett Marden Quotes
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There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can’t.
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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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Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made.
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Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.
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Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being.
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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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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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Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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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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Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
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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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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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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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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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