Famous Quotes

Quotes by Orison Swett Marden

• A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
• 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.
• All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
• 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.
• Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
• Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.
• 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.
• 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.
• It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
• Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around 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 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.
• No man fails who does his best.
• No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
• 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.
• Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
• Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
• Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
• Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
• 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.
• Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed pay the price and it is yours.
• 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 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.
• The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
• 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.
• 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.
• The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
• 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.
• The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
• 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.
• 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.
• There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
• 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.
• There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.