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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
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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
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New Hampshire
United States
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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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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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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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There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.
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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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One of the best strengtheners of character and developers of stamina ... is to assume the part you wish to play to assert stoutly the possession of whatever you lack.
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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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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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Without continuous effort there cannot be continuous achievement.
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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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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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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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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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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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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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The wearer of smiles and the bearer of a kindly disposition needs no introduction, but is welcome anywhere.
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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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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
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The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
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The mill cannot grind with the water that has passed.
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