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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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Medical Writer
Philosopher
Physician Writer
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New Hampshire
United States
O. Swett Marden
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The wearer of smiles and the bearer of a kindly disposition needs no introduction, but is welcome anywhere.
Orison Swett Marden
There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can't.
Orison Swett Marden
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.
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Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.
Orison Swett Marden
But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!
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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
Orison Swett Marden
A man will remain a rag-picker as long as he has only the vision of a rag-picker.
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It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as hard, if not harder, than day laborers and that the most obvious reason why they have been superior to other men is that they have taken more pains than other men.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
Orison Swett Marden
There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
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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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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
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
Orison Swett Marden
We lend power to the things we fear!
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We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.
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Character: the grandest thing in the world.
Orison Swett Marden
We fail to see that we can control our destiny make ourselves do whatever is possible make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
Orison Swett Marden
The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.
Orison Swett Marden
Our destiny changes with our thought we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
Orison Swett Marden
The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
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