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Self-confidence carries conviction it makes other people believe in us.
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
O. Swett Marden
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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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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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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 Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
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Even the men most richly endowed with ability, education, and opportunity, even the giants of the race, after the completest life possible, feel, as they stand on the edge of the grave, that they are but human acorns with all their possibilities still in them, just beginning to sprout.
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If we get the good that belongs to us here and now, we must extract the sweetness of each passing minute while it is ours. That is the real art of living in the today.
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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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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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There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
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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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The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of the weak.
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