What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.
ORISON SWETT MARDENGood cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
More Orison Swett Marden Quotes
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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
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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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Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
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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.
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Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
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Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.
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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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Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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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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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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How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
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The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
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