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Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.

Orison Swett Marden

But how shall I get ideas? ”Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind – Act!
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Ideas Mindset Observation Yourself
Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. It is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.
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Happiness Quiet Reality Recognition Simplicity World
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
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
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.
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Creative Herself Positive Universe Woman Work
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
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Bold Mindset Obstacle Ourselves Walk
The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’
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Business Customer Gold Man Place Rule
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
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
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Ability Creation Yourself
A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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Goal Goodness Road
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
Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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Man Opportunity Wait Weakness
Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality… that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence.
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Excellence Hands Mindset Quality Stand
Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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Imagination Inspirational Limitation Ourselves Possible Reality Thinking
Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
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Build Destroy Pessimist
People do not realise the immense value of utilising spare minutes.
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People Time Value Worth

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