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Orison Swett Marden was an American author and motivational speaker, born in 1850 and died in 1924. His works primarily revolve around the themes of personal growth, success, and self-improvement, which have been well-received by readers.

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“Without continuous effort there cannot be continuous achievement.”

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Author:Orison Swett Marden

“Aspiration lifts the life; groveling lowers it. When we are striving for excellence in everything we do the entire life grows and expands, but if we allow our standards to drop, there is a natural progression that follows, a tendency for a downward effort in all that we do thereafter.”

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Author:Orison Swett Marden

“Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.”

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Book:The Optimistic Life

Source: The Optimistic Life

“There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.”

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

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“Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.”

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Book:The Optimistic Life

Source: The Optimistic Life

“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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Book:Exceptional Employee

Source: Exceptional Employee

“No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more - to be happy and successful - than much money.”

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Book:The Optimistic Life

Source: The Optimistic Life

“To think you can creates the force that can.”

Thinking Force Effort

Book:Heading for Victory: Or, Getting the Most Out of Life

Source: Heading for Victory: Or, Getting the Most Out of Life

“People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others so them, but always a little better. They always pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the quality of life's work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that conquers the heights of excellence.”

Source: Do It to a Finish!

“Fear is a great robber of power. It paralyzes the thinking faculties, ruins spontaneity, enthusiasm, and self confidence. It has a blighting effect upon all one's thoughts, moods, and efforts. It destroys ambition and efficiency.”

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Book:The Miracle of Right Thought

Source: The Miracle of Right Thought

“You must bring every particle of your energy, unanswerable resolution, your best efforts, your persistent industry to your task or the best will not come out of you. You must back up your ambition by your whole nature, by unbounded enthusiasm and a determination to win which knows no failure.”

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Author:Orison Swett Marden

“A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to the sea, but waits for the sea to come to him. If it does not come, he remains where he is and dies, although the slightest effort would enable him to reach the waves, which are perhaps within a yard of him. The world is full of human lobsters; people stranded on the rocks of indecision and procrastination, who, instead of putting forth their own energies, are waiting for some grand billow of good fortune to set them afloat.”