Greatness Quotes by Orison Swett Marden

19 Greatness quotes by Orison Swett Marden

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Orison Swett Marden’s 19 statements champion personal growth and determination. His classic self‑help tone offers a steady encouragement for anyone seeking to elevate their own standards.

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“A man will remain a rag picker as long as he has only a rag picker’s vision.”

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

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Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. --Orison Swett Marden

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Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

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

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What a great discrepancy there is between men and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power…

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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…

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Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular…

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Most men fail, not through lack of education, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or…

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The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into…

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The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

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Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless…

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Anybody can work when everything goes smoothly, when there is nothing to trouble him; but a man must be made of the…

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It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as…

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The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished…

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Success is in the student, not in the university; greatness is in the individual, not in the library; power is in the…

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Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep…

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“We tend to get what we expect, and if we expect nothing we get nothing. The stream cannot rise higher than its fountainhead;”

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There never will be a trust in excellence or a combination in superiority. As long as you can do a thing a little better…

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