Orison Swett Marden Motivational 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

• Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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

• Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Orison Swett Marden (2016). “The Miracle of Right Thought”, p.10, FV Éditions

• We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.

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  Motivational, Nature, Environmental

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

• There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.

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  Motivational, Believe, Knowing

• Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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

• 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.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

• 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.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Responsibility

  Orison Swett Marden (2006). “Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate”, p.43, Cosimo, Inc.

• Fear is a great robber of power. It paralyzes the thinking faculties, ruins spontaneity, enthusiasm, and self confidence. It has a blighting effect upon all one's thoughts, moods, and efforts. It destroys ambition and efficiency.

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  Motivational, Ambition, Self Confidence

  Orison Swett Marden (2016). “The Miracle of Right Thought”, p.107, FV Éditions

• Many mothers make the mistake of forever looking for the bad in the child, trying to . . . uproot and drive it out. This is like trying to eject the darkness from a room without opening the shutters and letting in the light. As John Newton said, 'I cannot sweep the darkness out, but I can shine it out.'

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  Motivational, Mother, Children

  Orison Swett Marden (2007). “The Miracle of Right Thought”, p.167, Cosimo, Inc.

• 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.

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  Motivational, Nature, Excellence

  Orison Swett Marden (2007). “Do It to a Finish!”, p.19, Cosimo, Inc.

• Self-confidence carries conviction; it makes other people believe in us.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Motivational, Believe, Self Confidence

• Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Motivational, Careers, New Job

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