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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.
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 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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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.
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The trouble with us is that we expect too much from the great happenings, the unusual things, and we overlook the common flowers on the path of life, from which we might abstract sweets, comforts, delights.
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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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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 an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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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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Opportunity always looks bigger going than coming.
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Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.
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A woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to herself the creative powers of the universe.
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The mill cannot grind with the water that has passed.
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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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Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power.
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No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
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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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Keep fear out of your child's mind, as you would keep poison out of his body for fear is the deadliest of mental poisons.
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Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
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It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
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