Orison Swett Marden Quotes
An American writer associated with the New Thought Movement.
(1850 - 1924)
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A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
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A good system shortens the road to the goal.
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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.
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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.
[Achievement]
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All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
[Imagination]
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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.
[Accomplished]
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Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
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Be larger than your task.
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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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.
[Action]
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Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
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Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.
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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.
[Nature]
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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.
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It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
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It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
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Live and let live is not enough; live and help live is not too much.
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