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" One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred. "

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" There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King. "

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" The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion. "

" Wanted: a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say 'No,' though all the world say 'Yes.' "

" 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. "

" It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well. "

Orison Swett Marden

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Easily

" There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority. "

" 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. "

" The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous. "

" Existence is the privilege of effort, and when that privilege is met like a man, opportunities to succeed along the line of your aptitude will come faster than you can use them. "

" I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it. "

" The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart. "

" Whatever you do, don't discourage your dreaming propensity. Your heart's desires are not empty vaporings. They foreshadow possible realities. Man was made to aspire, to look upward. "

" More men are ruined by underestimating the value of money than by overestimating it. Let us, then, abandon the affectation of despising money, and frankly own its value. "

" The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty. "

" No man fails who does his best. "

" Golden opportunities are nothing to laziness, but industry makes the commonest chances golden. "

" The achievements of willpower are almost beyond computation. Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough. "

" 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. "

Orison Swett Marden

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Dreaming

" Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way. "

" Unless generosity of spirit prevails among men, there can never be upon earth an ideal life. "

" A good system shortens the road to the goal. "

" 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. "

" Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument. "

" No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price. "

" Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people. "

" Life is a great university for the unfolding of the mind, for developing character. In choosing our life work, when we are free to choose, we should remember this, and choose that which will call the biggest man or woman out of us and not that from which we can coin the most dollars. "

" By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities. "

" If a thing seems to you worth working for at all, if it appears to you of moment enough to challenge any effort, then put into what you do all the enthusiasm of which you are capable, regardless of criticism. "

" A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system; work keeps it in health and order. "

Orison Swett Marden

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Day

" 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. "