Quotes by Marden, Orison Swett

"There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame -- manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does."

Marden, Orison Swett on honesty   

"If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could throw us off our center, so that no matter what misfortune should overtake us, there would still be a whole magnificent man or woman left after being stripped of everything else."

Marden, Orison Swett on honesty   

"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."

Marden, Orison Swett on honesty   

"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow."

Marden, Orison Swett on hope
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"But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!"

Marden, Orison Swett on ideas   

"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."

Marden, Orison Swett on impossibility
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"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."

Marden, Orison Swett on action
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"The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor."

Marden, Orison Swett on influence   

"He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf; eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame. Such a man makes every acre of land in his community worth more, and makes richer every man who lives near him."

Marden, Orison Swett on leadership   

"The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place."

Marden, Orison Swett on leadership
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"It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind."

Marden, Orison Swett on mind   

"No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life."

Marden, Orison Swett on mistakes
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"No man fails who does his best..."

Marden, Orison Swett on mistakes
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"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."

Marden, Orison Swett on mistakes   

"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."

Marden, Orison Swett on obstacles   

"When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time."

Marden, Orison Swett on obstacles   

"Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small."

Marden, Orison Swett on obstacles   

"The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity -- an opportunity to be polite -- an opportunity to be manly -- an opportunity to be honest -- an opportunity to make friends."

Marden, Orison Swett on opportunity
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"It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world."

Marden, Orison Swett on opportunity   

"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."

Marden, Orison Swett on opportunity   

"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them."

Marden, Orison Swett on opportunity
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"There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do."

Marden, Orison Swett on perseverance   

"A good system shortens the road to the goal."

Marden, Orison Swett on planning   

"Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities."

Marden, Orison Swett on possibilities   

"Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action."

Marden, Orison Swett on possibilities   

"What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?"

Marden, Orison Swett on poverty and the poor   

"There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become."

Marden, Orison Swett on power   

"Power gravitates to the man who knows how."

Marden, Orison Swett on power   

"There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us."

Marden, Orison Swett on praise   

"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."

Marden, Orison Swett on praise   

"Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it."

Marden, Orison Swett on preparation   

"A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements."

Marden, Orison Swett on price
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"No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price."

Marden, Orison Swett on price   

"What keeps so many employers back is simple unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort."

Marden, Orison Swett on price   

"You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion."

Marden, Orison Swett on love
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"Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours."

Marden, Orison Swett on success   

"When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, -- this is happiness, this is success."

Marden, Orison Swett on success   

"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."

Marden, Orison Swett on success   

"Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step."

Marden, Orison Swett on success   

"Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it."

Marden, Orison Swett on success