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Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.
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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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.
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It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as hard, if not harder, than day laborers and that the most obvious reason why they have been superior to other men is that they have taken more pains than other men.
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There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
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Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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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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Put yourself in your customer's 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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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.
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Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
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Without continuous effort there cannot be continuous achievement.
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Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark.
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Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.
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Begin where you are work where you are the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.
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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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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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The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
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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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The divine injunction to be perfect, even as He is perfect, was not given man to mock him. The possibility of our waking in His likeness is literally true.
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Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young.
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