Orison Swett Marden Quotes
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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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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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Just try the effect of putting beauty into your life, a little every day. You will find it magical. It will broaden and light up your outlook upon the world as the acquisition of money or fame never can.
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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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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
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Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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Wanted: a man who is larger than his calling, who considers it a low estimate of his occupation to value it merely as a means of getting a living.
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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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One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.
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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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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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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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It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.
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The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.
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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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The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
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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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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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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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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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Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
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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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It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.
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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.