It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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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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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Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.
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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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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.
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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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Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
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Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in.
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Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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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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Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
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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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Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.
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The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
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Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
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There is no medicine like hope.
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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!
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Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark.
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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.
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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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We lend power to the things we fear!
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There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can’t.
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He can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t.
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The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
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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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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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