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Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.
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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You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company - a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.
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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed pay the price and it is yours.
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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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Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.
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The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
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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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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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Character is a mark cut upon something, and this indelible mark determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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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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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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Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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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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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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We lend power to the things we fear!
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As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure
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There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
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