Orison Swett Marden Quotes
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The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
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It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.
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Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
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It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
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Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
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What is enthusiasm but a passionate belief in what seems to be a high and holy aim - an unselfish devotion to some noble cause - a consecration of heart and mind and soul to the attainment of a great object?
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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
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What is needed by him who would succeed in the highest degree possible is careful planning. He is to accumulate reserved power, that he may be equal to all emergencies.
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You are never to allow a shadow of doubt to enter your mind that the Creator intended you to win in life's battle.
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Our dreaming capacity gives us a peep into the glorious realities that await us further on. It is the evidence of things possible to us.
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Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted.
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It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.
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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 world takes us at our own valuation. It believes in the man who believes in himself, but it has little use for the timid man: the one who is never certain of himself, who cannot rely on his own judgment, who craves advice from others, and is afraid to go ahead on his own account.
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There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
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If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.
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Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.
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Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.
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The ability to cultivate friends is a powerful aid to success. It is capital which will stand by one when panics come, when banks fail, when business concerns go to the wall.
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The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
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Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.