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" Enthusiasm will steady the heart and strengthen the will; it will give force to the thought and nerve to the hand until what was only a possibility becomes a reality. "

Orison Swett Marden

Reality

Enthusiasm

Heart

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" Our dreaming capacity gives us a peep into the glorious realities that await us further on. It is the evidence of things possible to us. "

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Possible

Dreaming

" Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns. "

" Unless generosity of spirit prevails among men, there can never be upon earth an ideal life. "

" It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest. "

" You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them. "

" When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave. "

" If a thing seems to you worth working for at all, if it appears to you of moment enough to challenge any effort, then put into what you do all the enthusiasm of which you are capable, regardless of criticism. "

" One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one's capacity for happiness, but also one's efficiency. "

" We are all the products of our own thoughts. Whatever we concentrate upon, that we are. "

" Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action. "

" The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements. "

Orison Swett Marden

Success

Chaos

" All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. "

" The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor. "

" Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted. "

" You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else. "

" When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit. "

" No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else. "

" History furnishes thousands of examples of men who have seized occasions to accomplish results deemed impossible by those less resolute. Prompt decision and whole-souled action sweep the world before them. "

" There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority. "

" One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book. "

" What is enthusiasm but a passionate belief in what seems to be a high and holy aim - an unselfish devotion to some noble cause - a consecration of heart and mind and soul to the attainment of a great object? "

" 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. "

" If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't. "

" What is needed by him who would succeed in the highest degree possible is careful planning. He is to accumulate reserved power, that he may be equal to all emergencies. "

" It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character. "

Orison Swett Marden

Character

Possibilities

" No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece. "

" In order to keep himself at the top of his condition, to obtain complete mastery of all his powers and possibilities, a man must be good to himself mentally; he must think well of himself. "

" 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. "

" 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. "