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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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" Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory. "

Orison Swett Marden

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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. "

" 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. "

" The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment. "

" In order to keep himself at the top of his condition, to obtain complete mastery of all his powers and possibilities, a man must be good to himself mentally; he must think well of himself. "

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

" Nothing that the mind of man can conceive is impossible. "

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

" 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. "

" What is needed by him who would succeed in the highest degree possible is careful planning. He is to accumulate reserved power, that he may be equal to all emergencies. "

" 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. "

" There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit. When the soul throws its windows wide open, letting in the sunshine, and presenting to all who see it the evidence of its gladness, it is not only happy, but it has an unspeakable power of doing good. "

" We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest. "

Orison Swett Marden

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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. "

" You are never to allow a shadow of doubt to enter your mind that the Creator intended you to win in life's battle. "

" The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor. "

" We are all the products of our own thoughts. Whatever we concentrate upon, that we are. "

" Never allow yourself to dwell upon your weaknesses, deficiencies, or failures. Holding firmly the ideal and struggling vigorously to attain it will help you to realize it. "

" True economy means the wisest expenditure of what we have, everything considered, looking at it from the broadest standpoint. It is not a good thing to save a nickel at the expenditure of twenty-five cents' worth of time. "

" The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision. "

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

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

" History furnishes thousands of examples of men who have seized occasions to accomplish results deemed impossible by those less resolute. Prompt decision and whole-souled action sweep the world before them. "

" The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment. "

" 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. "

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

" If you would make the most of yourself, cut away all of your vitality sappers; get rid of everything which hampers you and holds you back, everything which wastes your energy, cuts down your working capital. Get freedom at any cost. "

" The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. "

" The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty. "

" There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment. "