Quotes By Orison Swett Marden

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

A will finds a way.

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.

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.

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.

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

No man fails who does his best.

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

We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.

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 is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.

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.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

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.

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

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

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

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

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.

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.

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.