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Orison Swett Marden

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01Undated

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.

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02Undated

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

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03Undated

Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

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04Undated

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

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05Undated

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

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06Undated

Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.

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07Undated

One hour a day withdrawn from frivolous pursuits and profitably employed would enable any man of ordinary capacity to master a complete science.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.

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08Undated

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.

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09Undated

Books make it possible for every person born into the world to begin where the previous generation left off.

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10Undated

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.

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11Undated

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.

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12Undated

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)

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13Undated

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.

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14Undated

You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.

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15Undated

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.

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16Undated

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.

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17Undated

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.

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18Undated

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.

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19Undated

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

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20Undated

Live and let live is not enough live and help live is not too much.

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21Undated

The hopeful man sees success where others see failure sunshine where others see shadows and storm.

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22Undated

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.

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23Undated

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

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24Undated

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.

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