Orison Swett Marden Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Orison Swett Marden
Orison Swett Marden Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.
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.
When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.
What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.
No two things differ more than Hurry and Dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, Dispatch of a strong one.
We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.
It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.
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.
Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted.
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
You are never to allow a shadow of doubt to enter your mind that the Creator intended you to win in life's battle.
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.
When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.
No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.
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.
Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
Let your air be that of a winner, a man who is resolved to make his way in the world, to make himself stand for something.
Wanted: a man who is larger than his calling, who considers it a low estimate of his occupation to value it merely as a means of getting a living.
Instead of worrying over unforeseen misfortune, set out with all your soul to rejoice in the unforeseen blessings of all your coming days.
The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
Necessity has been a priceless spur which has helped men to perform miracles against incredible odds.
If you cannot at first control your anger, learn to control your tongue, which, like fire, is a good servant, but a hard master.
If someone offered to purchase a large percentage of your life power you would not think of selling it, even for a fabulous sum.
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character.
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.
Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.
Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.
Concentrate ... for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul.
There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.
There is nothing in this world which men desire and struggle for, and that is good for them, of which there is not enough for everybody.
Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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.
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?
We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.
He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
Books make it possible for every person born into the world to begin where the previous generation left off.
Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.
Play is as necessary to the perfect development of a child as sunshine is to the perfect development of a plant.
Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part.
We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
And above all, study, study, study ! All the genius in the world will not help you along with any art unless you become a hard student. It
Money, influence, and position are nothing compared with brains, principles, energy and perseverances.