Orison Swett Marden Quote Explained: If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.

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Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.

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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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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.

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Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.

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

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Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.

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The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

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We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.

- Orison Swett Marden

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

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

Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.

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

No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.

Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.

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

Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.

Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.

All poetry like every work of art proceeds from a swift vision of things.

Before you can do something that you’ve never done, you have to be able to imagine it is possible.

Well, my brother was a schizophrenic, so I understood it in a different way from seeing my brother.

Part of being a writer is defending your vision and not caving in to outside pressures.

Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine.

Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you.

I don’t want the kind of theater that I love and grew up seeing to die out.

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

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

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