Quotes By Orison Swett Marden

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.

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

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.

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.

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

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

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

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.

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

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.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.

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.

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.

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.