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 MARDENJust 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.
More Orison Swett Marden Quotes
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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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Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
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Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.
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No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
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Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
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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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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.
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The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.
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We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.
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Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
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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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Opportunities? They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
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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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