Welcome to our collection of inspiring quotes by Orison Swett Marden, a pioneering figure in the self-help and personal development field. Orison Swett Marden, an American writer and businessman, is renowned for his motivational writings that have empowered countless individuals to achieve their dreams and reach their full potential. Through his timeless words of wisdom, Marden encouraged readers to cultivate a positive mindset, embrace perseverance, and pursue their goals with unwavering determination.
Marden’s profound insights into the human psyche and his emphasis on the power of optimism and self-belief continue to resonate with people from all walks of life. Whether you seek motivation to overcome obstacles, guidance on how to unlock your inner potential, or simply a dose of inspiration to fuel your journey towards success, the quotes of Orison Swett Marden offer invaluable pearls of wisdom. Join us as we explore a selection of his most empowering quotes, each serving as a beacon of light illuminating the path towards personal growth and fulfillment. Discover the transformative power of Marden’s words and let them inspire you to strive for greatness in every aspect of your life.
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. Orison Swett Marden
The achievements of willpower are almost beyond computation. Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough. Orison Swett Marden
Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part. Orison Swett Marden
Unless generosity of spirit prevails among men, there can never be upon earth an ideal life. Orison Swett Marden
A will finds a way. Orison Swett Marden
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. Orison Swett Marden
Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power. Orison Swett Marden
When the sacredness of one’s word is matched in the attributes of his character throughout, all that constitutes a man, then we find that there is something in a man’s life greater than his occupation or his achievements; grander than acquisition or wealth; higher than genius; more enduring than fame. 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. Orison Swett Marden
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. Orison Swett Marden
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. Orison Swett Marden
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. Orison Swett Marden
We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out. Orison Swett Marden
No one is mocked with the yearning for that which he has no ability to attain. If he holds the right mental attitude and struggles earnestly, honestly toward his goal, he will reach it, or at least approximate to it. Orison Swett Marden
When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave. Orison Swett Marden
Be larger than your task. Orison Swett Marden
Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy. Orison Swett Marden
Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him. Orison Swett Marden
Power gravitates to the man who knows how. Orison Swett Marden
No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price. Orison Swett Marden
Our dreaming capacity gives us a peep into the glorious realities that await us further on. It is the evidence of things possible to us. Orison Swett Marden
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. Orison Swett Marden
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do. Orison Swett Marden
The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart. Orison Swett Marden
The true doctrine is that labor – systematic, effective, congenial labor – is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment. Orison Swett Marden
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. Orison Swett Marden
It is every one’s sacred duty to keep himself in a condition to do the biggest thing possible to him. Orison Swett Marden
Never allow yourself to dwell upon your weaknesses, deficiencies, or failures. Holding firmly the ideal and struggling vigorously to attain it will help you to realize it. Orison Swett Marden
True economy means the wisest expenditure of what we have, everything considered, looking at it from the broadest standpoint. It is not a good thing to save a nickel at the expenditure of twenty-five cents’ worth of time. Orison Swett Marden
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. Orison Swett Marden
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. Orison Swett Marden
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. Orison Swett Marden
Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way. Orison Swett Marden
No man can stand still; the moment progress is not made, retrogression begins. If the blade is not kept sharp and bright, the law of rust will assert its claim. Orison Swett Marden
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. Orison Swett Marden
The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels it a privilege to have the power to do a fellow-creature a kindness – even though polished manners and a gracious presence may be absent – will be an elevating influence wherever he goes. Orison Swett Marden
It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food. Orison Swett Marden
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. Orison Swett Marden
In order to keep himself at the top of his condition, to obtain complete mastery of all his powers and possibilities, a man must be good to himself mentally; he must think well of himself. Orison Swett Marden
We are all the products of our own thoughts. Whatever we concentrate upon, that we are. Orison Swett Marden
Do not give up your dream because it is apparently not being realized, because you cannot see it coming true. Cling to your vision with all the tenacity you can muster. Keep it bright; do not let the bread-and-butter side of life cloud your ideal or dim it. Orison Swett Marden
When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit. Orison Swett Marden
What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart? Orison Swett Marden
The secret of success lies in that old word, ‘Drudgery,’ in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is ‘this one thing I do’ that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements. Orison Swett Marden
Analyzing what you haven’t got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career. Orison Swett Marden
There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring. Orison Swett Marden
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. Orison Swett Marden
When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it. Orison Swett Marden
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. Orison Swett Marden
Form the habit early in life of leaving your business at the store or wherever you may be employed. Never carry it home to mar the peace of your family; if you do, you will soon drive out the sunshine. Orison Swett Marden
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. Orison Swett Marden
It is like the seed put in the soil – the more one sows, the greater the harvest. Orison Swett Marden
Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities. Orison Swett Marden
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. Orison Swett Marden
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. Orison Swett Marden
Strength of will is the test of a young man’s possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip? Orison Swett Marden
The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling. Orison Swett Marden
Live in the very soul of expectation of better things, in the conviction that something large, grand, and beautiful will await you if your efforts are intelligent, if your mind is kept in a creative condition and you struggle upward to your goal. Orison Swett Marden
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. Orison Swett Marden
It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer. Orison Swett Marden
The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them. Orison Swett Marden
Every man ultimately falls into the company with which he affiliates. And he is the strongest who draws men to himself, who creates the company; and this is through having a positive quality – courage and physical prowess. Orison Swett Marden
The world takes us at our own valuation. It believes in the man who believes in himself, but it has little use for the timid man: the one who is never certain of himself, who cannot rely on his own judgment, who craves advice from others, and is afraid to go ahead on his own account. Orison Swett Marden
Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument. Orison Swett Marden
The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor. Orison Swett Marden
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. Orison Swett Marden
Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed, and that success is not for you, as a traitor, and expel it from your mind as you would a thief from your house. Orison Swett Marden
Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you. Orison Swett Marden
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. Orison Swett Marden
It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well. Orison Swett Marden
We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be. Orison Swett Marden
Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them. Orison Swett Marden
Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours. Orison Swett Marden
Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people. Orison Swett Marden
It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity. Orison Swett Marden
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system; work keeps it in health and order. Orison Swett Marden
I wish I could fill every young man who reads these pages with an utter dread and horror of poverty. I wish I could make you so feel its shame, its constraint, its bitterness that you would make vows against it. Orison Swett Marden
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. Orison Swett Marden
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us. Orison Swett Marden
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. Orison Swett Marden
The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world. Orison Swett Marden
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. Orison Swett Marden
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. Orison Swett Marden
A good system shortens the road to the goal. Orison Swett Marden
There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority. Orison Swett Marden
Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self-confident. They dared to step out from the crowd and act in an original way. They were not afraid to be generals. Orison Swett Marden
The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision. Orison Swett Marden
You are never to allow a shadow of doubt to enter your mind that the Creator intended you to win in life’s battle. Orison Swett Marden
It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind. Orison Swett Marden
There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us. Orison Swett Marden
We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest. Orison Swett Marden
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. Orison Swett Marden
If you would make the most of yourself, cut away all of your vitality sappers; get rid of everything which hampers you and holds you back, everything which wastes your energy, cuts down your working capital. Get freedom at any cost. Orison Swett Marden
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow. Orison Swett Marden
There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit. When the soul throws its windows wide open, letting in the sunshine, and presenting to all who see it the evidence of its gladness, it is not only happy, but it has an unspeakable power of doing good. Orison Swett Marden
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. Orison Swett Marden
The golden rule for every business man is this: ‘Put yourself in your customer’s place.’ Orison Swett Marden
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one’s being. Orison Swett Marden
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. Orison Swett Marden
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work. Orison Swett Marden