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"The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do" — Orison Marden
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"It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest." — Orison Marden
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"Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being" — Orison Marden
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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." — Orison Marden
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Beginning    Honesty   

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"It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind." — Orison Marden
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Desire    Mind   

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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." — Orison Marden
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Ability    Cooperation   

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"There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame. Manhood and character stand for success - nothing else really does." — Orison Marden
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"It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as hard, if not harder, than day laborers; and that the most obvious reason why they have been superior to other me" — Orison Marden
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"Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances." — Orison Marden
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Achievement    Success   

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"This force, which is the best thing in you, your highest self, will never respond to any ordinary half-hearted call, or any milk-and-water endeavor, It can only be reached by your supremest call, your supremest effort. It will respond only to the call that is backed up by the whole of you, not part of you; you must be all there in what you are trying to do. You must bring every particle of your energy, unanswerable resolution, your best efforts, your persistent industry to your task or the best will not come out of you. You must back up your ambition by your whole nature, by unbounded enthusiasm and a determination to win which knows no failure... Only a masterly call, a masterly will, a supreme effort, intense and persistent application, can unlock the door to your inner treasure and release your highest powers." — Orison Swett Marden
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"The world is sad enough without your woe." — Orison Swett Marden
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"No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money..." — Orison Swett Marden
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"The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act." — Orison Swett Marden
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"There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame -- manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does." — Orison Swett Marden
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"There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us." — Orison Swett Marden
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"The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone." — Orison Swett Marden
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"Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight." — Orison Swett Marden
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"There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do." — Orison Swett Marden
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"You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion." — Orison Swett Marden
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Love    Self-love   

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"When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say ''amen'' to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success." — Orison Swett Marden
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"Concentration is the factor that causes the great discrepancy between men and the results they achieve... the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability and concentrating on one point." — Orison Swett Marden
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