We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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Other Orison Swett Marden quotes:
When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.
Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered, and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.
Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between .the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.
The disgrace is not in falling, but in not rising every time you fall.
Be larger than your task.
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us, and puts us into closer touch with what is best and brightest in our lot in life.
There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
