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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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Physician Writer
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New Hampshire
United States
O. Swett Marden
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Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
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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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The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
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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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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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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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A man will remain a rag-picker as long as he has only the vision of a rag-picker.
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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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Anybody can work when everything goes smoothly, when there is nothing to trouble him but a man must be made of the right kind of stuff who can rise above the things which harass and handicap the weak, and do his work in spite of them. Indeed, this is the test of greatness.
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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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There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
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Who would have ever heard of Theodore Roosevelt outside of his immediate community if he had only half committed himself? The great secret of his career was that he has flung his whole life with all the determination and energy he could muster.
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No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
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The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.
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Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.
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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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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 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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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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