Orison Swett Marden

Books by Orison Swett Marden

An Iron Will
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Pushing to the front

or, Success under difficulties; a book of inspiration and encouragement to all who are struggling for self-elevation along the paths of knowledge and of duty
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How To Get What You Want
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Quotes by Orison Swett Marden

Books make it possible for every person born into the world to begin where the previous generation left off.
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The great trouble with all of us who are struggling with unhappy or unfortunate conditions is that we have separated ourselves in some way from the great magnetic center of creation. We are not thinking right, and so we are not attracting the right things. "Think the things you want." The profoundest philosophy is locked up in these few words. Think of them clearly, persistently, concentrating upon them with all the force and might of your mind, and struggle toward them with all your energy. This is the way to make yourself a magnet for the things you want. But the moment you begin to doubt, to worry, to fear, you demagnetize yourself, and the things you desire flee from you. You drive them away by your mental attitude. They cannot come near you while you are deliberately separating yourself from them. You are going in one direction, and the things you want are going in the opposite direction.
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Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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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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Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
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Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
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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.
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Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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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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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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Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
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Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
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Books make it possible for every person born into the world to begin where the previous generation left off.
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The great trouble with all of us who are struggling with unhappy or unfortunate conditions is that we have separated ourselves in some way from the great magnetic center of creation. We are not thinking right, and so we are not attracting the right things. "Think the things you want." The profoundest philosophy is locked up in these few words. Think of them clearly, persistently, concentrating upon them with all the force and might of your mind, and struggle toward them with all your energy. This is the way to make yourself a magnet for the things you want. But the moment you begin to doubt, to worry, to fear, you demagnetize yourself, and the things you desire flee from you. You drive them away by your mental attitude. They cannot come near you while you are deliberately separating yourself from them. You are going in one direction, and the things you want are going in the opposite direction.
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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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No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
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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.
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The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
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