Orison Swett Marden
American author and founder of Success magazine, 1850-1924
69 quotes.
Quotes by Orison Swett Marden
- The effort always to do your best will enlarge your capacity for doing things, and will encourage you to push ahead toward larger triumphs.
- 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 great difference between those who succeed and those who fail does not consist in the amount of work done by each, but in the amount of intelligent work.
- The great trouble with many of us is that we do not believe enough in ourselves.
- The habit of happy thought would transform the commonest life into harmony and beauty.
- The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and to possess the aptitude and perseverance to attain it.
- The indomitable will, the inflexible purpose, will find a way or make one.
- The influence of the brave man is contagious and creates an epidemic of noble zeal in all about him.
- The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer than he.
- The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into it, has not learned the first principles of success or happiness.
- The only luck that plays any great part in a man's life is that which inheres in a stout heart, a willing hand, and an alert brain.
- The power of mastery is within ourselves, but we must develop it, cultivate it, use it.
- The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
- The quality which you put into your work will determine the quality of your life.
- The spirit of courage will transform the whole temper of your life.
- The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling. No one is large enough to be split up into many parts; and the sooner a man can stamp this truth upon his mind, the better his chances for being a profitable member of society.
- The whole world is full of unworked joy-mines. Everywhere we go we find all sorts of happiness-producing material, if we only know how to extract it.
- The will, the determination to do a thing, is the same as the affirmation of the ability to do it.
- There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
- To think you can creates the force that can.
- We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
- We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.
- What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.
- What we do without a purpose begrudgingly, with a purpose becomes a delight, and no work is well done nor healthily done which is not enthusiastically done.
- Whether we realize it or not, we are never stronger than our faith, we never undertake anything greater than our self-confidence dictates.
- You must drive out fear by putting a new idea into the mind.
- You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.
- You will never master it until you first feel the mastery and do the deed in your mind.
- Your achievement will never rise higher than your self-faith.