Orison Swett Marden Quotes
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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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We are all the products of our own thoughts. Whatever we concentrate upon, that we are.
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If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.
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The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.
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There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.
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A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
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Wanted: a man who is larger than his calling, who considers it a low estimate of his occupation to value it merely as a means of getting a living.
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Necessity has been a priceless spur which has helped men to perform miracles against incredible odds.
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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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The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
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The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them.
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A will finds a way.
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The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.
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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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There is nothing in this world which men desire and struggle for, and that is good for them, of which there is not enough for everybody.
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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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There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
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No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
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If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.
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Our dreaming capacity gives us a peep into the glorious realities that await us further on. It is the evidence of things possible to us.
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Just try the effect of putting beauty into your life, a little every day. You will find it magical. It will broaden and light up your outlook upon the world as the acquisition of money or fame never can.
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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 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.