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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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New Hampshire
United States
O. Swett Marden
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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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Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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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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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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There's no grander sight in the world than that of a person fired with a great purpose, dominated by one unwavering aim.
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There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can't.
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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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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
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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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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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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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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 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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Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
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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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Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
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If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
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A man will remain a rag-picker as long as he has only the vision of a rag-picker.
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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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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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