Ifs Quotes by Orison Swett Marden

15 Ifs quotes by Orison Swett Marden

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Orison Swett Marden’s voice shines through these fifteen reflections on “Ifs,” offering a steady dose of optimism that feels like a quiet encouragement to keep moving forward.

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If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.

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If we get the good that belongs to us here and now, we must extract the sweetness of each passing minute while…

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We cannot separate our lives from time. Why is it that we are so extravagant, so thoughtless, in our waste of time,…

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Aspiration lifts the life; groveling lowers it. When we are striving for excellence in everything we do the entire life grows and…

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How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles, the air seems more balmy, the sky clearer,…

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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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Who would have ever heard of Theodore Roosevelt outside of his immediate community if he had only half committed himself? The great…

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There is a legend that when God was equipping man for his long life journey of exploration, the attendant good angel was…

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We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must…

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If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we…

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Life is not mean, it is grand; if it is mean to any, he or she makes it so. God made it…

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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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Every thought which enters the mind, every word we utter, every deed we perform, makes its impression upon the inmost fiber of…

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The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring…

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A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to…

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

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Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.

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