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" If you would make the most of yourself, cut away all of your vitality sappers; get rid of everything which hampers you and holds you back, everything which wastes your energy, cuts down your working capital. Get freedom at any cost. "

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" There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. "

Orison Swett Marden

Tomorrow

Powerful

" 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. "

" No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy. "

" It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity. "

" It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well. "

Orison Swett Marden

Well

Easily

" If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become. "

" Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.' "

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

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

" 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. "

" Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars. "

" Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us. "

" There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring. "

" 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. "

" Should you be so unfortunate as to suppose you are a genius, and that 'things will come to you,' it would be well to undeceive yourself as soon as possible. Make up your mind that industry must be the price of all you obtain, and at once begin to pay down. "

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

" We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out. "

" Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him. "

" 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

" Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us. "

" 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. "

" By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities. "

" 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. "

" There is nothing in this world which men desire and struggle for, and that is good for them, of which there is not enough for everybody. "

" 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? "

" The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you. "

" Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again. "

" 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. "

" The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous. "

" 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. "