Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
ORISON SWETT MARDENHow can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
More Orison Swett Marden Quotes
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If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
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The secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and can enjoy what others own.
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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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There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can’t.
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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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There is no medicine like hope.
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Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
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What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.
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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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Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
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Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being.
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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People do not realise the immense value of utilising spare minutes.
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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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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.
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We lend power to the things we fear!
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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.
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You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.
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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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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in.
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Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
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You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
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Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.
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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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