Orison Swett Marden Quotes

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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.

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  Motivational, Success, Meaningful

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• Money, influence, and position are nothing compared with brains, principles, energy and perseverances.

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  Perseverance, Brain, Energy

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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.

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  Inspirational, Strength, Strong

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• There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

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  Hope, Powerful, Get Well Soon

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “He Can Who Thinks He Can, and Other Papers on Success in Life: From the Renowned Author of Inspirational Works like How to Get what You Want, Prosperity and How to Get It, The Miracles of Right Thought, Self-Investment and Masterful Personality”, p.37, e-artnow

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• The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities. She will strip us of wealth, humble our pride, humiliate our ambition, let us down from the ladder of fame, will discipline us in a thousand ways, if she can develop a little character. Everything must give way to that. Wealth is nothing, position is nothing, fame is nothing, manhood is everything.

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  Nature, Humble, Ambition

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.138, e-artnow

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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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  Friendship, Happiness, Heart

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.494, e-artnow

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• The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity, an opportunity to be polite, an opportunity to be manly, an opportunity to be honest, an opportunity to make friends.

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  Opportunity, Mind, Clients

  Orison Swett Marden (2013). “The Wisdom of Orison Swett Marden”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in

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  Opportunity, Tuning, Broadcasting

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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.

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  Inspirational, Dream, Life And Love

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.3113, e-artnow

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• We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.

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  Vision, Climbs, Lifts

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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.

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  Inspirational, Confidence, Money

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• To think you can creates the force that can.

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  Thinking, Effort, Force

  Orison Swett Marden (1922). “Heading for Victory: Or, Getting the Most Out of Life”

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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.

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  Respect, Courage, Kings

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• You must bring every particle of your energy, unanswerable resolution, your best efforts, your persistent industry to your task or the best will not come out of you. You must back up your ambition by your whole nature, by unbounded enthusiasm and a determination to win which knows no failure.

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  Determination, Ambition, Winning

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• If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.

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  Vision, Want, Firsts

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• The world makes way for the man with an idea.

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  Men, Ideas, Will And Determination

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.873, e-artnow

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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.

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  Confidence, Perseverance, Believe

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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.

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  Inspirational, Sacrifice, Pay The Price

  Orison Swett Marden (1997). “Exceptional Employee”, p.114

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• He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't.

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  Inspirational, Positive, Thinking

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success”, p.591, e-artnow

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• We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.

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  Inspirational, Life, Success

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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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  Motivation, Destiny, Champion

  Orison Swett Marden (2016). “How to get what you want”, p.18, FV Éditions

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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.

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  Determination, Failure, Men

  "An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front".

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• Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.

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  Challenges, Looks, Obstacles

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.

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  Inspirational, Men, Lasts

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “Architects of Fate”, p.115, Sheba Blake Publishing

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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.

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  Inspirational, Uplifting, Ambition

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.2038, e-artnow

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