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Character: the grandest thing in the world.

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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Character
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World

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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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Be larger than your task.
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To have done no man a wrong...to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire and its gratification but the invisible law of rectitude-this is to be a man.
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Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
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Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.
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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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Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of 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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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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Fear is a great robber of power. It paralyzes the thinking faculties, ruins spontaneity, enthusiasm, and self confidence. It has a blighting effect upon all one's thoughts, moods, and efforts. It destroys ambition and efficiency.
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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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One of the best strengtheners of character and developers of stamina ... is to assume the part you wish to play to assert stoutly the possession of whatever you lack.
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As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure
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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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Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.
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Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
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Character is a mark cut upon something, and this indelible mark determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.
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