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"In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."

- Alert Camus








Monday, April 23, 2012

Quotes

Everyone has his burden; what counts is how you carry it.



It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.
Orison Swett Marden


Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous.
A great occasion is valuable to you in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
Orison Swett Marden


We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.
Orison Swett Marden


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.
Orison Swett Marden


If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)



When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say "amen" to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - this is happiness, this is success.

Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)

There are powers inside of you, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.
Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)

We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)

People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They
have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they
have never been satisfied to do things just as others so them, but always a little better. They always
pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the
quality of life's work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that
conquers the heights of excellence.
Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has
been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met.
Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us
Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)


Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work
Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924)


Groucho Marx's "Money will not make you happy, and happy will not make you money."


I think that I shall never see
a billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.

Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)


Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)


I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.
Sally Kempton


No one can earn a million dollars honestly.
William Jennings Bryan (1860 - 1925)











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