Famous Quotes

Quotes by Orison Swett Marden

• 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.
• 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.