There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN
ORISON SWETT MARDEN
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Orison Swett Marden79 quotes“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.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. It is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden 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.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden To think you can creates the force that can.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden 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 MardenOrison Swett Marden Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden People do not realise the immense value of utilising spare minutes.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden 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.
Orison Swett MardenOrison Swett Marden 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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