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Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.
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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New Hampshire
United States
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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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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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To have done no man a wrong...to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire and its gratification but the invisible law of rectitude-this is to be a man.
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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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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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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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Character: the grandest thing in the world.
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Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
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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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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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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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Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power.
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The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within of us so weak and intermittent that it makes no impression upon the creative energies it lacks the force that transmutes desires into realities.
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Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage...true success follows every right step.
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No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.
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When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.
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Even the men most richly endowed with ability, education, and opportunity, even the giants of the race, after the completest life possible, feel, as they stand on the edge of the grave, that they are but human acorns with all their possibilities still in them, just beginning to sprout.
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The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
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