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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.

Orison Swett Marden

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.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Best Hands Life Man Rule Trade Yourself
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
If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Life Thinking Yourself
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
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.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

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
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Face Happiness Heart Ourselves Young
Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
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Desire Destiny Habit Thinking
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
People do not realise the immense value of utilising spare minutes.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

People Time Value Worth
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
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
How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Development Man Myself Possible
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
To think you can creates the force that can.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Creation Force Thinking Yourself
The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Decision Quality Run Value Work World

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