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.
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
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.
We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
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.
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
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.
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made.
If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring.
Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.
Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
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.
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company - a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.
We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.
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.
Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?
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.
Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
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.
There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
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.
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.
A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.
