Quotes By Orison Swett Marden

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

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

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.

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.

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

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

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.

When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.

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.

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.

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

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.

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

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

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.

Be larger than your task.

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.