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Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being.

Orison Swett Marden

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

Generosity Harvest Order Production
Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.
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Channel Greatness Man Power Success
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

Afraid Animal Eyes Obstacle Wild Yourself
The secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and can enjoy what others own.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Enjoyment Happiness Himself Mindset Secret
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.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Failure Himself Measurement
A woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to herself the creative powers of the universe.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Creative Herself Positive Universe Woman Work
Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Beginning Grand Possible Time Work
No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Himself Pay Price Success
This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Lost Man Material Test Yourself
Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Gravitation Knowledge Possible Power Source
Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Determination Education Failure Man Personal Willing
If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Life Thinking Yourself
How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Development Man Myself Possible
Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Children Perseverance Price Success Yourself
Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.
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Brain Local Thinking Trouble Worry
Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Goodness Greatness Life Machine

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