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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.

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
Poet Lawyer
Writer
New Hampshire
United States
O. Swett Marden
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To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
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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.
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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage...true success follows every right step.
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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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Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.
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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
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There never will be a trust in excellence or a combination in superiority. As long as you can do a thing a little better than anybody else can do it, you need no bond or trade-mark to protect the product of your brains.
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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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Let your air be that of a winner, a man who is resolved to make his way in the world, to make himself stand for something.
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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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The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
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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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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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We fail to see that we can control our destiny make ourselves do whatever is possible make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
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Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark.
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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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As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure
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Dreams that are realized become an inspiration for new endeavor. It is in the power to make the dream good that we find the hope of this world.
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