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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

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.
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Comfortable Effort Pay People Price Sacrifice Simplicity Willing
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
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.
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Ideal Man Place Success Weakness
There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Believe Conscious Ourselves
You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.
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Attitude World Yourself
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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Accomplishment Best Big Man Possible Quality Yourself
We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
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Ourselves Rise Standard Thinking
Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made.
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Inspirational Life Purpose Try Way Yourself
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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Action Best Better Greatness Reaction
People do not realise the immense value of utilising spare minutes.
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People Time Value Worth
Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
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Goodness Greatness Life Machine
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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Alone Chance Environment Gold Opportunity Yourself
Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
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Choice Himself Man Repeat Slave
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Greatness Hope Medicine Tomorrow
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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Failure Himself Measurement
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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Decision Quality Run Value Work World

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

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