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Orison Swett Marden
Orison Swett Marden
American Writer
Born: 1850
Died: 1924
Great Life Man Will You Yourself
Related authors: Dale Carnegie Denis Waitley Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Ray Bradbury W. E. B. Du Bois William Arthur Ward
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. Orison Swett Marden
Character Failure Self-Respect Man Respect Courage King Lost Self He Self-Confidence Still His Who
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. Orison Swett Marden
Success You Struggle Courage Odds Overwhelming Maintained Opposition Accomplish Encountered Which Against Success Is Measured
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them. Orison Swett Marden
Strength Great Strong Opportunities Wait Men Extraordinary Weak Weak Men Strong Men Seize Make Occasions Common Them
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. Orison Swett Marden
Life Time Best Great You Opportunities Power Beauty Waste Time Fragrance Out Has-Been Dreaming Open Been Where Place Faraway Your Fling Petals Waste Assigned
The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.' Orison Swett Marden
Man Business Yourself Every Rule Put The Golden Rule Golden Golden Rule Place Customer Your
The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness - even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent - will be an elevating influence wherever he goes. Orison Swett Marden
Kindness Man Welfare Will Power Manners Others Though Absent Unselfishness He Feels Polished Genuinely Privilege Gracious Goes May Influence Wherever Interested Who Even Elevating Presence
There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit. When the soul throws its windows wide open, letting in the sunshine, and presenting to all who see it the evidence of its gladness, it is not only happy, but it has an unspeakable power of doing good. Orison Swett Marden
Good Blessing Soul Happy Sunshine Power Evidence See Spirit Windows Only Gladness Throws Open Unspeakable Cheerful Inestimable Doing Doing Good Who Letting Wide Presenting
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. Orison Swett Marden
You Will Animals Spring Cowards Liable Wild Wild Animals Sight Eye Out See Obstacles Like Look Squarely Afraid Bluff Them
It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer. Orison Swett Marden
Success Attitude Achievement Mind Killer Hopeful Wins Cheerful Builder Optimism Buoyant Pessimism
A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires. Orison Swett Marden
Man Strong Own Victim Energy Favorable Out He Environment Force His Conditions Turn Successful Creates Successful Man Inherent Compel Things Desires
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world. Orison Swett Marden
Alone You World Strong Will Be Strong Somebody Power Ambition Nothing Others Else Destroys Habit Never Lean Leaning Bury Stand Your Original
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 Swett Marden
Positive You Become Everything Would Dreamed Inside Could Powers Make Discover Which Use Ever Imagined
Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities. Orison Swett Marden
Thoughts Imagination Our Possibilities Only Real Limits
Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people. Orison Swett Marden
Happiness People Fear Prosperity Doubt Thousands Thousands Of People Tens Self-Confidence Tens Of Thousands Discouragement Lack Which
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 Swett Marden
Nature Man Soul Clouds Impress Stars Every Winds Glaciers Animate Rivers Crystal Leaves Existence Forests Form Lakes Inanimate Flowers
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. Orison Swett Marden
Life Day Character You Yourself Every Day People Will Value Every Outlook Colored Shaped Contact Environment Come Surroundings Estimate Modified Molded Your Whole Whom Largely Career
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 Swett Marden
Great Sometimes Great Things Impossible Aim Gaze High Seemed Had Goal Accomplished Fixed Which Who Things
Live in the very soul of expectation of better things, in the conviction that something large, grand, and beautiful will await you if your efforts are intelligent, if your mind is kept in a creative condition and you struggle upward to your goal. Orison Swett Marden
Beautiful You Struggle Soul Creative Better Mind Will Expectation Conviction Live Something Better Things Condition Goal Very Intelligent Efforts Grand Upward Your Await Large Things Kept
Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power. Orison Swett Marden
Good Nature Power Reputation Disposition Others Kind Charitable Unselfish Perfume Ready Than Any Turn Your Sweeter Roses
It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity. Orison Swett Marden
Time Great Man Opportunity Complaining No Time He Always Idle Worker Who
Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours. Orison Swett Marden
Success Perseverance Pay Price Drudgery Child Cannot Success Is Bribed Yours
Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us. Orison Swett Marden
Trials Sympathy Our Develop Sorrows Grieves Us
Our visions are the plans of the possible life structure, but they will end in plans if we do not follow them up with a vigorous effort to make them real, just as the architect's plans will end in his drawings if they are not followed up and made real by the builder. Orison Swett Marden
Life Will Made Our Drawings Visions Possible Follow Followed Architect Structure Make Builder Real His End Up Effort Just Them Plans Vigorous
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do. Orison Swett Marden
You Longing Ability Given Which Creator
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. Orison Swett Marden
Best You Achievement Man Quality Yourself Will Big Depend Possible See Self Sort How Accomplishments Very Get Size Your Largely Image
Whatever you do, don't discourage your dreaming propensity. Your heart's desires are not empty vaporings. They foreshadow possible realities. Man was made to aspire, to look upward. Orison Swett Marden
You Man Heart Made Whatever Possible Dreaming Propensity Look Empty Discourage Upward Realities Your Aspire Desires
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