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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.
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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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
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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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Let us open up our natures, throw wide the doors of our hearts and let in the sunshine of good will and kindness.
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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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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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There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can't.
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You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
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We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.
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Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say No, though all the world say Yes.
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Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of the weak.
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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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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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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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