Orison Swett Marden Quotes

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

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• We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • God
  • High
  • Dark

• When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • World
  • Men
  • Community

• We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • School
  • Home
  • Kids

• It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.

  

  Kareena Kapoor Khan
  • Important
  • Read
  • Little

• My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.

  

  Immanuel Velikovsky
  • Believe
  • Mother
  • Father

• I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Wish
  • Easy
  • I Wish

• The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • May
  • War
  • America

• I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Celebrity

• Unfortunately, the United States has entered into several free trade agreements that do not sufficiently protect and support our manufacturing industries and the millions of American workers they employ.

  

  Dan Kildee
  • American
  • Free
  • Support

• Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • World
  • Energy
  • Positive

• I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Heart
  • Movement
  • Come

• I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Family
  • Home
  • Cutting

• We are building a company, Gemini, and the ETF, which is another company. I don't know if we're experts, but the goal is not to be an expert but to change the world. Does Richard Branson understand all the physics behind his space craft? I'm not sure.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • World
  • Change
  • Space

• Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Success
  • Best
  • Consequences

• Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.

  

  Kajol
  • Hand
  • Goals
  • Step

• A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Experience
  • London
  • Bicycle

• Netflix is something I watch.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Something
  • Watch
  • Netflix

• I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Work
  • Women
  • Strong

• Winners never quit and quitters never win.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Sports
  • Never
  • Win

• I'm bisexual, but it's not the sort of thing I spent a lot of time thinking about … I've slept with girls; I've slept with guys, so I guess that's what they call it! I'm not anti trying to use language to simplify our lives.

  

  Amanda Palmer
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?

  

  Margery Allingham
  • Up
  • May
  • Tea

• Still, on 'Friends', we had some guest-stars who were less than spectacular, not the stunt-casting, but just regular guest-stars, and they weren't particularly great actors, but the material was so good that they scored. It's the writing.

  

  Matt LeBlanc
  • Good
  • Great
  • Writing

• When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Peace
  • Prayer
  • Child

• A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Success
  • Struggle