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We lift ourselves by our thought.

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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Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage...true success follows every right step.
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One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring.
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The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
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Make every occasion a great occasion, for you can never tell who may be taking your measure for a higher place.
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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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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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Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.
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Our destiny changes with our thought we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed pay the price and it is yours.
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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 lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of the weak.
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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
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Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.
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What we do for a living does not matter as much as how we do it.
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It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.
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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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Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.
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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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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
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