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Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.
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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You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.
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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.
Orison Swett Marden
To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
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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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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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The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
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The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.
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Laughter brightens the eye, increases the perspiration, expands the chest, forces the poisoned air from the least-used cells, and tends to restore that exquisite poise or balance which we call health.
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Put yourself in your customer's place.
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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone.
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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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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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There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of the weak.
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Let us open up our natures, throw wide the doors of our hearts and let in the sunshine of good will and kindness.
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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.
Orison Swett Marden
Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
Orison Swett Marden
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.
Orison Swett Marden
Self-confidence carries conviction it makes other people believe in us.
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