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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 golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
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We lend power to the things we fear!
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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of the weak.
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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.
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There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten there is no failure for the determined endeavor, the conquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.
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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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The divine injunction to be perfect, even as He is perfect, was not given man to mock him. The possibility of our waking in His likeness is literally true.
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To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
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You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
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Society is to the individual what the sun and showers are to the seed. It develops him, expands him, unfolds him, calls him out of himself. Other men are his opportunity. Each one is a match which ignites some new tinder in him unignitible by any previous match. Without these the sparks of individuality would sleep in him forever.
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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.
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People do not realise the immense value of utilising spare minutes.
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Make every occasion a great occasion, for you can never tell who may be taking your measure for a higher place.
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Let your air be that of a winner, a man who is resolved to make his way in the world, to make himself stand for something.
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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
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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.
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Paradise is here or nowhere: you must take your joy with you or you will never find it.
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