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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. "

Orison Swett Marden

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" If we hold the poverty thought, the penury thought, the thought of lack, we cannot demonstrate abundance. We must hold the plenty thought if we would reach plenty. "

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" 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. "

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" Do not give up your dream because it is apparently not being realized, because you cannot see it coming true. Cling to your vision with all the tenacity you can muster. Keep it bright; do not let the bread-and-butter side of life cloud your ideal or dim it. "

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" 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. "

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" The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling. "

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

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" Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed, and that success is not for you, as a traitor, and expel it from your mind as you would a thief from your house. "

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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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" You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else. "

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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. "

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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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" It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character. "

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" No man fails who does his best. "

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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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" 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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" If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place. "

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

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" Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do. Never for an instant harbor a doubt of it. "

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" Many a man owes his advancement very largely to his ability to converse well. The ability to interest people in your conversation, to hold them, is a great power. "

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" Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self-confident. They dared to step out from the crowd and act in an original way. They were not afraid to be generals. "

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" All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. "

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" Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy. "

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" Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns. "

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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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" Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation. "

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" Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world. "

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" Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career. "

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" Should you be so unfortunate as to suppose you are a genius, and that 'things will come to you,' it would be well to undeceive yourself as soon as possible. Make up your mind that industry must be the price of all you obtain, and at once begin to pay down. "

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

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