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People do not realise the immense value of utilising spare minutes.
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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If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
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To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
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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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Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
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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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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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Without continuous effort there cannot be continuous achievement.
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Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young.
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We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
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Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power.
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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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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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Our destiny changes with our thought we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
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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 failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten there is no failure for the determined endeavor, the conquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.
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Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.
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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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Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.
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Put yourself in your customer's place.
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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
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