Orison Swett Marden Quotes
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You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
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Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
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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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Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
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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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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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It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.
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No man fails who does his best.
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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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It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
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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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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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Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
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Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.