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The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into it, has not learned the first principles of success or happiness.
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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New Hampshire
United States
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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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There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
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As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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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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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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Paradise is here or nowhere: you must take your joy with you or you will never find it.
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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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Let your air be that of a winner, a man who is resolved to make his way in the world, to make himself stand for something.
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The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
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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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Put yourself in your customer's place.
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Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
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No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
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