Quotes By Orison Swett Marden

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.

You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

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

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

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

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.

We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.

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.

It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.

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.

Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

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

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

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

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.

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.

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.

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

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 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.

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