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As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure
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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If we get the good that belongs to us here and now, we must extract the sweetness of each passing minute while it is ours. That is the real art of living in the today.
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Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence.
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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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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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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring.
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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone.
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Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.
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Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
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Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.
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Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.
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Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
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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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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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The divine injunction to be perfect, even as He is perfect, was not given man to mock him. The possibility of our waking in His likeness is literally true.
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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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You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.
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You must bring every particle of your energy, unanswerable resolution, your best efforts, your persistent industry to your task or the best will not come out of you. You must back up your ambition by your whole nature, by unbounded enthusiasm and a determination to win which knows no failure.
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