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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.
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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Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.
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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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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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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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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of the weak.
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The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
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We fail to see that we can control our destiny make ourselves do whatever is possible make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
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Self-confidence carries conviction it makes other people believe in us.
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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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Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.
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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.
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Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.
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