Orison Swett Marden Quotes
If we get the good that belongs to us here and now, we must extract the sweetness of each passing minute while it is ours. That is the real art of living in the today.
Let us open up our natures, throw wide the doors of our hearts and let in the sunshine of good will and kindness.
Make every occasion a great occasion, for you can never tell who may be taking your measure for a higher place.
No matter how humble your work may seem, do it in the spirit of an artist, of a master. In this way you lift it out of commonness and rob it of what would otherwise be drudgery.
Opportunity is coy, is swift, is gone, before the slow, the unobservant, the indolent, or the careless can seize her.
A man will remain a rag-picker as long as he has only the vision of a rag-picker.
The divine injunction to be perfect, even as He is perfect, was not given man to mock him. The possibility of our waking in His likeness is literally true.
The greatest thing a man can do in this world, is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Books make it possible for every person born into the world to begin where the previous generation left off.
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.
The tonic of success is a marvelous producer as well as stimulant. By the law of mental magnetism one success attracts another, and after we begin to win it is comparatively easy to keep on winning.
The college diploma has no more power to hold the knowledge you have gained in college than a piece of tissue paper over a gas jet can hold the gas in the pipe.
Most men fail not through lack of education but from lack of dogged determination from lack of dauntless will.
There is no medicine like hope no incentive so great and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
The hopeful man sees success where others see failure sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
Our destiny changes with our thoughts we shall become what we wish to become do what we wish to do when our habitual thoughts correspond with our desires.
If our dreams are sincere desires to achieve, not mere pipe-dreams, there is something deep within ourselves which comes out to meet them and helps to make them realities.
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.
Strength of will is the test of a young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip?
Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.
The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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.'
The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.
Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed pay the price and it is yours.