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Keep fear out of your child's mind, as you would keep poison out of his body for fear is the deadliest of mental poisons.
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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New Hampshire
United States
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The trouble with us is that we expect too much from the great happenings, the unusual things, and we overlook the common flowers on the path of life, from which we might abstract sweets, comforts, delights.
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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 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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We lend power to the things we fear!
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Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. It is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.
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Whatever comes to us in life we create first in our mentality. As the building is a reality in all its details in the architects mind before a stone or brick is laid, so we create mentally everything which later becomes a reality in our achievement.
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Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
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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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You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.
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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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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of the weak.
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There's no grander sight in the world than that of a person fired with a great purpose, dominated by one unwavering aim.
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We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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Dreams that are realized become an inspiration for new endeavor. It is in the power to make the dream good that we find the hope of this world.
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The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.
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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.
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The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
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Put yourself in your customer's place.
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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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