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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Orison Swett Marden
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Orison Swett Marden
Age: 75 †
Born: 1848
Born: June 11
Died: 1924
Died: March 10
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New Hampshire
United States
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The secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied he is rich who is contented with what he has, and can enjoy what others own.
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If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
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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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A man will remain a rag-picker as long as he has only the vision of a rag-picker.
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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 it, has not learned the first principles of success or happiness.
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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of the weak.
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Opportunity always looks bigger going than coming.
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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 about to add the gift of contentment and complete satisfaction. The Creator stayed his hand and said, 'No, if you bestow that upon him you will rob him forever of all joy of self-discovery.'
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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.
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Put yourself in your customer's place.
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Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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Be larger than your task.
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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 secret of his career was that he has flung his whole life with all the determination and energy he could muster.
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Dreams that are realized become an inspiration for new endeavor. It is in the power to make the dream good that we find the hope of this world.
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There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can't.
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We lend power to the things we fear!
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The mill cannot grind with the water that has passed.
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You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.
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