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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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Paradise is here or nowhere: you must take your joy with you or you will never find it.
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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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Let us open up our natures, throw wide the doors of our hearts and let in the sunshine of good will and kindness.
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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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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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Concentrate . . . for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul.
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A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
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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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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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We lend power to the things we fear!
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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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We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
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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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Be larger than your task.
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The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
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