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Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
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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Whatever comes to us in life we create first in our mentality. As the building is a reality in all its details in the architects mind before a stone or brick is laid, so we create mentally everything which later becomes a reality in our achievement.
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Begin where you are work where you are the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.
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The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.
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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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Anybody can work when everything goes smoothly, when there is nothing to trouble him but a man must be made of the right kind of stuff who can rise above the things which harass and handicap the weak, and do his work in spite of them. Indeed, this is the test of greatness.
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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of the weak.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Live and let live is not enough live and help live is not too much.
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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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Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
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There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can't.
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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
Orison Swett Marden
No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.
Orison Swett Marden
Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say No, though all the world say Yes.
Orison Swett Marden
We lend power to the things we fear!
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