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

Orison Swett Marden

The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Atmosphere Best Breathe High Plane Purity
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.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Accomplishment Best Big Man Possible Quality Yourself
What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Comfortable Effort Pay People Price Sacrifice Simplicity Willing
Opportunities? They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Discover Eyes Lying Opportunity Power
Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
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Large Obstacle Small Yourself
Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark.
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Best Hands Life Man Rule Trade Yourself
The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into it, has not learned the first principles of success or happiness.
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Happiness Learning Man Principle Secret Soul
Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.
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Children Perseverance Price Success Yourself
No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Himself Pay Price Success
Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Chance Education Greatness Preparation Profit Yourself
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
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Bold Mindset Obstacle Ourselves Walk
You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Attitude World Yourself
Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Goodness Greatness Life Machine
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.
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Enjoyment Happiness Himself Mindset Secret
Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Common Effort Greatness Way

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