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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.

Orison Swett Marden

A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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Goal Goodness Road
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
It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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Easy Ourselves Willing
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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Achievement Dreams Greatness Man
The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN

Act Beginning Greatness Habit Repeat Thinking Time
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
Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
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Future Hope Learning
We lend power to the things we fear!
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Fear One Liner Power
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
There is no medicine like hope.
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Hope Medicine One Liner
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!
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Ideas Mindset Observation Yourself
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
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
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
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Encounter Measurement Struggle Success Yourself
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
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Enough Happiness Sad Yourself
The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
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Day Intensity Man Purpose Success

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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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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