Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
ORISON SWETT MARDENHow can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
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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Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
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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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We lend power to the things we fear!
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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.
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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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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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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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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.
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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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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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Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.
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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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