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"39 Orison Swett Marden Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 11 June 1848. Died: 10 March 1924 | Author |
Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
Believe Heart Made Do
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No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.

Great Spoil Possibility Most
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Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Common Extraordinary Great Make
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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Alone Chance Environment Golden
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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.

Given Greatest Make Man
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Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

Analyzing Career Got Ingredient
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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.

Accomplished Aim Fixed Gaze
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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.

Become Control Destiny Fail
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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.

Cannot Did Failures Get
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

Success Measured Accomplish Opposition
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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Medicine Hope Incentive Great
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Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.

Obstacle Look Large Challenge
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What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

Keep People Unwilling Price
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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Power Discover Inside Dream
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We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.
Win Battle Mind World
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Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Opportunities Power Latent Eye
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What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.

Stumbling Block Defeat Weak
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The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into it, has not learned the first principles of success or happiness.

Man Learned Secret Drudgery
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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
Rise High Thought Self-esteem
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There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

Won Undertake Thing Persistence
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

Wild Liable Eye Squarely
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Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

Keep Joyfulness Heart Face
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Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
Obstacles Melt Cowering Minds
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The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.

Great Cable Habit Invincible
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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company - a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

Upright You Honest Interest
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There can be no life which does not contain something to be grateful for, and the habit of gratitude is one of the most powerful assets of success and happiness which can be named.

Grateful Life Habit Gratitude
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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Success Drudgery Perseverance Coaxed
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Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say

Man Individuality Courage Conviction
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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.

Failure Lost Courage Character
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Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in.
Opportunity Miss Broadcast Tune
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Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.

Expectations Opens Closes Doors
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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.

Men Fail Through Lack
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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.

Destiny Changes Thought Become
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The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
Books Those Which Lift
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There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
Stimulus Comes Consciousness Knowing
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People do not realise the immense value of utilising spare minutes.
People Realise Immense Value
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The secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and can enjoy what others own.

Secret Happiness Contented Cheerful
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Laughter brightens the eye, increases the perspiration, expands the chest, forces the poisoned air from the least-used cells, and tends to restore that exquisite poise or balance which we call health.

Laughter Brightens Eye Increases
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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.

Outlook Estimate Yourself Value
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Orison Swett Marden Quotes & Sayings