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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

Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Build Destroy Pessimist
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.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Action Best Better Greatness Reaction
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
Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Balance Love Man Play Work
We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Ourselves Thinking Vision
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
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.
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Beginning Grand Possible Time Work
Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say “No,” though all the world say “Yes.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Afraid Individual Lose Man Talk World
Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Channel Greatness Man Power Success
A good system shortens the road to the goal.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Goal Goodness Road
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.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Excellence Hands Mindset Quality Stand
There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Believe Conscious Ourselves
There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Discover Dreams Imagination Power Yourself
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
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
It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Easy Ourselves Willing

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