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How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?

Orison Swett Marden

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Orison Swett Marden
Age: 75 †
Born: 1848
Born: June 11
Died: 1924
Died: March 10
Author
Medical Writer
Philosopher
Physician Writer
Poet Lawyer
Writer
New Hampshire
United States
O. Swett Marden
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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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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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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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Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
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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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The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
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We lend power to the things we fear!
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Put yourself in your customer's place.
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Concentrate . . . for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul.
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There never will be a trust in excellence or a combination in superiority. As long as you can do a thing a little better than anybody else can do it, you need no bond or trade-mark to protect the product of your brains.
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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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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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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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Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.
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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 wearer of smiles and the bearer of a kindly disposition needs no introduction, but is welcome anywhere.
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Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.
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Many mothers make the mistake of forever looking for the bad in the child, trying to . . . uproot and drive it out. This is like trying to eject the darkness from a room without opening the shutters and letting in the light. As John Newton said, 'I cannot sweep the darkness out, but I can shine it out.'
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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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