Quotes By Orison Swett Marden

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.