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Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
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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Laughter brightens the eye, increases the perspiration, expands the chest, forces the poisoned air from the least-used cells, and tends to restore that exquisite poise or balance which we call health.
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You must bring every particle of your energy, unanswerable resolution, your best efforts, your persistent industry to your task or the best will not come out of you. You must back up your ambition by your whole nature, by unbounded enthusiasm and a determination to win which knows no failure.
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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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Every one who has labored honestly in the past has aided to place knowledge and comfort within the reach of a constantly increasing number.
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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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.
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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 no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
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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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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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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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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.
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The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within of us so weak and intermittent that it makes no impression upon the creative energies it lacks the force that transmutes desires into realities.
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