Orison Swett Marden Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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We are all the products of our own thoughts. Whatever we concentrate upon, that we are.
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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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A will finds a way.
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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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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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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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The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
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No man fails who does his best.
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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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You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
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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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Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
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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 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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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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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.
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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.