Quotes by Marden, Orison Swett

"Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire."

Marden, Orison Swett on destiny
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"You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing."

Marden, Orison Swett on joy   

"No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else."

Marden, Orison Swett on joy   

"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."

Marden, Orison Swett on joy   

"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."

Marden, Orison Swett on joy   

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

Marden, Orison Swett on joy
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"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."

Marden, Orison Swett on environment   

"Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us."

Marden, Orison Swett on environment
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"We make the world we live in and shape our own environment."

Marden, Orison Swett on environment   

"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..."

Marden, Orison Swett on environment   

"It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame."

Marden, Orison Swett on excellence   

"Doing common things uncommonly well."

Marden, Orison Swett on excellence   

"Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hall-mark of excellence."

Marden, Orison Swett on excellence   

"It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others."

Marden, Orison Swett on excellence   

"There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority..."

Marden, Orison Swett on excellence   

"Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened."

Marden, Orison Swett on excellence   

"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."

Marden, Orison Swett on excellence
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"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."

Marden, Orison Swett on excellence   

"Superiority -- doing things a little better than anybody else can do them."

Marden, Orison Swett on excellence   

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

Marden, Orison Swett on excellence   

"People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others so them, but always a little better. They always pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the quality of life's work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that conquers the heights of excellence."

Marden, Orison Swett on excellence   

"Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark..."

Marden, Orison Swett on excellence   

"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."

Marden, Orison Swett on expectation   

"We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out."

Marden, Orison Swett on expectation   

"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."

Marden, Orison Swett on failure   

"There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back."

Marden, Orison Swett on failure   

"You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them."

Marden, Orison Swett on failure   

"Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them."

Marden, Orison Swett on fear   

"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."

Marden, Orison Swett on forgiveness
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"No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more -- to be happy and successful -- than much money..."

Marden, Orison Swett on friends and friendship   

"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."

Marden, Orison Swett on fun   

"We must give more in order to get more, It is the generous giving of ourselves that produce the generous harvest."

Marden, Orison Swett on giving
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"It is like the seed put in the soil -- the more one sows, the greater the harvest."

Marden, Orison Swett on giving   

"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."

Marden, Orison Swett on achievement
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"Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us..."

Marden, Orison Swett on grief
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"The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities. She will strip us of wealth, humble our pride, humiliate our ambition, let us down from the ladder of fame, will discipline us in a thousand ways, if she can develop a little character, Everything must give way to that. Wealth is nothing, position is nothing, fame is nothing, manhood is everything."

Marden, Orison Swett on growth   

"The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act."

Marden, Orison Swett on habit   

"Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels."

Marden, Orison Swett on habit
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"Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe."

Marden, Orison Swett on happiness   

"The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience."

Marden, Orison Swett on happiness