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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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New Hampshire
United States
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Even the men most richly endowed with ability, education, and opportunity, even the giants of the race, after the completest life possible, feel, as they stand on the edge of the grave, that they are but human acorns with all their possibilities still in them, just beginning to sprout.
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Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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People do not realise the immense value of utilising spare minutes.
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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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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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Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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