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Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
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
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New Hampshire
United States
O. Swett Marden
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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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Without continuous effort there cannot be continuous achievement.
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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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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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It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.
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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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What we do for a living does not matter as much as how we do it.
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Character: the grandest thing in the world.
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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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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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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.
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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
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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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There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can't.
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Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep the wolf from the door.
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Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.
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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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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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But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!
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