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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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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Physician Writer
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New Hampshire
United States
O. Swett Marden
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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.
Orison Swett Marden
Character is a mark cut upon something, and this indelible mark determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
Orison Swett Marden
There never will be a trust in excellence or a combination in superiority. As long as you can do a thing a little better than anybody else can do it, you need no bond or trade-mark to protect the product of your brains.
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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.
Orison Swett Marden
Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.
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No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more - to be happy and successful - than much money.
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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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Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.
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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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One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring.
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How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
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All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
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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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It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
Orison Swett Marden
The secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied he is rich who is contented with what he has, and can enjoy what others own.
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Live and let live is not enough live and help live is not too much.
Orison Swett Marden
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
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Society is to the individual what the sun and showers are to the seed. It develops him, expands him, unfolds him, calls him out of himself. Other men are his opportunity. Each one is a match which ignites some new tinder in him unignitible by any previous match. Without these the sparks of individuality would sleep in him forever.
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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.
Orison Swett Marden
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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