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" What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity. "

Orison Swett Marden

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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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" What is enthusiasm but a passionate belief in what seems to be a high and holy aim - an unselfish devotion to some noble cause - a consecration of heart and mind and soul to the attainment of a great object? "

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" Strength of will is the test of a young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip? "

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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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" 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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" 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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" He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others. "

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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. "

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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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" 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.' "

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" Power gravitates to the man who knows how. "

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" With five chances on each hand and one unwavering aim, no boy, however poor, need despair. There is bread and success for every youth under the American flag who has energy and ability to seize his opportunity. "

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" 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. "

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" When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit. "

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" It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food. "

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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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" 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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" Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal. "

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" You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them. "

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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. "

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

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" Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted. "

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" We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be. "

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