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Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.

Orison Swett Marden

Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Conquer Control Power Yourself
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.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Excellence Hands Mindset Quality Stand
Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Common Effort Greatness Way
Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Beginning Grand Possible Time Work
The 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

Accomplishment Best Big Man Possible Quality Yourself
The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Action Best Better Greatness Reaction
Opportunities? They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Discover Eyes Lying Opportunity Power
Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Brain Local Thinking Trouble Worry
There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Believe Conscious Ourselves
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.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Happiness Learning Man Principle Secret Soul
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Face Happiness Heart Ourselves Young
Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep the wolf from the door.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Charm Greatness Poverty Struggle Time
Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Large Obstacle Small Yourself
Our 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 MARDEN

Desire Destiny Habit Thinking
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.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Feeling Happiness Man Possible Power Success
Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Build Destroy Pessimist

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