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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 been given him. This is success, and there is no other.Orison Swett Marden
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Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.Orison Swett Marden
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Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.Orison Swett Marden
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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.Orison Swett Marden
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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.Orison Swett Marden
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Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.Orison Swett Marden
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One hour a day withdrawn from frivolous pursuits and profitably employed would enable any man of ordinary capacity to master a complete science. One hour a day would in ten years make an ignorant man a well-informed man… In an hour a day, a boy or girl could read twenty pages thoughtfully–over seven thousand pages, or eighteen large volumes in a year. An hour a day might make all the difference between bare existence and useful, happy living. An hour a day might make–nay, has made–an unknown man a famous one, a useless man a benefactor to his race. .Orison Swett Marden
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The great trouble with all of us who are struggling with unhappy or unfortunate conditions is that we have separated ourselves in some way from the great magnetic center of creation. We are not thinking right, and so we are not attracting the right things. “Think the things you want.” The profoundest philosophy is locked up in these few words. Think of them clearly, persistently, concentrating upon them with all the force and might of your mind, and struggle toward them with all your energy. This is the way to make yourself a magnet for the things you want. But the moment you begin to doubt, to worry, to fear, you demagnetize yourself, and the things you desire flee from you. You drive them away by your mental attitude. They cannot come near you while you are deliberately separating yourself from them. You are going in one direction, and the things you want are going in the opposite direction.Orison Swett Marden
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Books make it possible for every person born into the world to begin where the previous generation left off.Orison Swett Marden
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Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people whom you come in contact everyday.Orison Swett Marden
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Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say "No, " though all the world say "Yes.Orison Swett Marden
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What we do when defeat stares us in the face is the real touchstone of character. But the very fact that success has time and again proved the means of awakening people to the knowledge of greater ability than they ever before dreamed they possessed, ought to hearten and encourage us to keep on no matter how often we fail. If we brace ourselves and continue to push forward we will ultimately win out. (From Everybody ahead, or getting the most out of life).Orison Swett Marden
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When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.Orison Swett Marden
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You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.Orison Swett Marden
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Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence.Orison Swett Marden
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The tonic of success is a marvelous producer as well as stimulant. By the law of mental magnetism one success attracts another, and after we begin to win it is comparatively easy to keep on winning.Orison Swett Marden
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The college diploma has no more power to hold the knowledge you have gained in college than a piece of tissue paper over a gas jet can hold the gas in the pipe.Orison Swett Marden
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We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.Orison Swett Marden
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Most men fail not through lack of education but from lack of dogged determination from lack of dauntless will.Orison Swett Marden
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Live and let live is not enough live and help live is not too much.Orison Swett Marden
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There is no medicine like hope no incentive so great and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.Orison Swett Marden
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The hopeful man sees success where others see failure sunshine where others see shadows and storm.Orison Swett Marden
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Our destiny changes with our thoughts we shall become what we wish to become do what we wish to do when our habitual thoughts correspond with our desires.Orison Swett Marden
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The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'Orison Swett Marden
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No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.Orison Swett Marden
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It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.Orison Swett Marden
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No one is mocked with the yearning for that which he has no ability to attain. If he holds the right mental attitude and struggles earnestly, honestly toward his goal, he will reach it, or at least approximate to it.Orison Swett Marden
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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.Orison Swett Marden
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If our dreams are sincere desires to achieve, not mere pipe-dreams, there is something deep within ourselves which comes out to meet them and helps to make them realities.Orison Swett Marden
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Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.Orison Swett Marden
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Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed, and that success is not for you, as a traitor, and expel it from your mind as you would a thief from your house.Orison Swett Marden
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.Orison Swett Marden
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Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.Orison Swett Marden
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Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power.Orison Swett Marden
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.Orison Swett Marden
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Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.Orison Swett Marden
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.Orison Swett Marden
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Strength of will is the test of a young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip?Orison Swett Marden
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Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.Orison Swett Marden
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One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bring rainbow hues and enduring joys to the whole life. It will not only greatly increase one's capacity for happiness, but also one's efficiency.Orison Swett Marden
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Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.Orison Swett Marden
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Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.Orison Swett Marden
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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.Orison Swett Marden
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There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit. When the soul throws its windows wide open, letting in the sunshine, and presenting to all who see it the evidence of its gladness, it is not only happy, but it has an unspeakable power of doing good.Orison Swett Marden
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.Orison Swett Marden
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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.Orison Swett Marden
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Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.Orison Swett Marden
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Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.Orison Swett Marden
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.Orison Swett Marden
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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.Orison Swett Marden
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Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No, ' though all the world say 'Yes.'Orison Swett Marden
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Every man ultimately falls into the company with which he affiliates. And he is the strongest who draws men to himself, who creates the company; and this is through having a positive quality - courage and physical prowess.Orison Swett Marden
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.Orison Swett Marden
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Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.Orison Swett Marden
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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.Orison Swett Marden
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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 imagined you could become.Orison Swett Marden
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If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.Orison Swett Marden
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Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.Orison Swett Marden
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We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.Orison Swett Marden
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A will finds a way.Orison Swett Marden
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One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.Orison Swett Marden
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Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.Orison Swett Marden
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It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.Orison Swett Marden
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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed pay the price and it is yours.Orison Swett Marden
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A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.Orison Swett Marden