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Orison Swett Marden Quotes: Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.
         

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.


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We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.



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It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.



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Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.



Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.



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The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.



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The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'



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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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