Orison Marden Quotes

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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." Orison Marden
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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." Orison Marden
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Life    Quote of the Day    Vision   

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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." Orison Marden
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"Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage...true success follows every right step." Orison Marden
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Goodness   

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"Resolve that whatever you do, you will bring the whole man to it; that you will fling the whole weight of your being into it." Orison Marden
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Commitment    Man   

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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." Orison Marden
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"Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career." Orison Marden
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Ability   

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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." Orison Marden
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Power   

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"There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us" Orison Marden
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Consciousness   

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"But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!" Orison Marden
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Ideas   

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"Doing common things uncommonly well." Orison Marden
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Excellence   

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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." Orison Marden
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Impossibility   

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"Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us..." Orison Swett Marden
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Grief   

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"The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. 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. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy." Orison Swett Marden
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Wisdom   

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"I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up." Orison Marden
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People    Perseverance   

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"The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do." Orison Swett Marden
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Ability   

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"Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities." Orison Swett Marden
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Action   

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"The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within of us so weak and intermittent that it makes no impression upon the creative energies; it lacks the force that transmutes desires into realities." Orison Swett Marden
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Commitment   

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"The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose." Orison Swett Marden
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Concentration   

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"We fail to see that we can control our own destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be." Orison Swett Marden
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Control   

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"It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others." Orison Swett Marden
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