Quotes by Marden, Orison Swett

"The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do."

Marden, Orison Swett on ability
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"Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work."

Marden, Orison Swett on character   

"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."

Marden, Orison Swett on vision   

"The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart."

Marden, Orison Swett on vision   

"We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere."

Marden, Orison Swett on vision   

"We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves."

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"The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling."

Marden, Orison Swett on waste   

"The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. 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. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy."

Marden, Orison Swett on wisdom   

"Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being."

Marden, Orison Swett on wisdom   

"The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world."

Marden, Orison Swett on work   

"Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him..."

Marden, Orison Swett on youth   

"Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities."

Marden, Orison Swett on action   

"You know from past experiences that whenever you have been driven to the wall, or thought you were, you have extricated yourself in a way which you never would have dreamed possible had you not been put to the test. The trouble is that in your everyday life you don't go deep enough to tap the divine mind within you."

Marden, Orison Swett on commitment   

"The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within of us so weak and intermittent that it makes no impression upon the creative energies; it lacks the force that transmutes desires into realities."

Marden, Orison Swett on commitment   

"This force, which is the best thing in you, your highest self, will never respond to any ordinary half-hearted call, or any milk-and-water endeavor, It can only be reached by your supremest call, your supremest effort. It will respond only to the call that is backed up by the whole of you, not part of you; you must be all there in what you are trying to do. You must bring every particle of your energy, unanswerable resolution, your best efforts, your persistent industry to your task or the best will not come out of you. You must back up your ambition by your whole nature, by unbounded enthusiasm and a determination to win which knows no failure... Only a masterly call, a masterly will, a supreme effort, intense and persistent application, can unlock the door to your inner treasure and release your highest powers."

Marden, Orison Swett on commitment   

"Resolve that whatever you do, you will bring the whole man to it; that you will fling the whole weight of your being into it."

Marden, Orison Swett on commitment   

"The world is sad enough without your woe."

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"The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose."

Marden, Orison Swett on concentration   

"Concentration is the factor that causes the great discrepancy between men and the results they achieve... the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability and concentrating on one point."

Marden, Orison Swett on concentration   

"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."

Marden, Orison Swett on confidence   

"Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished."

Marden, Orison Swett on consequences   

"We fail to see that we can control our own destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be."

Marden, Orison Swett on control   

"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."

Marden, Orison Swett on cooperation   

"Be larger than your task."

Marden, Orison Swett on courage   

"This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?"

Marden, Orison Swett on courage