A collection of quotes by Orison Swett Marden on wisdom, will, success, motivation, dreams, attitude, courage, hope, morality, life, perspective and God.
52 Insightful Quotes By Orison Swett Marden That Will Give You The Success Mantra
Orison Swett Marden was an American author and businessman. He gained popularity as the author of inspirational books on achieving success and became a noted author of the time. His books garnered great popularity among the American public and Marden was also the founder of immensely popular magazine ‘SUCCESS’ that garnered a readership of around 500,000. Marden was also highly educated and had earned degrees in medicine, law, the arts and the natural sciences. Later on, he started working in a hotel and eventually went on to become a successful hotel entrepreneur. Marden decided to become a full time author and became a distinguished writer with his series of books on the secrets of success. His debut work titled ‘Pushing to the Front’ was published in 1894 and became a runaway success. Other noted works by him include ‘How to Succeed’, ‘The Optimistic Life’, ‘Architects of Fate’, ‘The Making of a Man’, ‘Be Good to Yourself’, ‘Every Man a King’ and ‘The Secret of Achievements’. His writings, thoughts, books and work will guide you towards the path of achieving what your heart aspires. We bring to you a collection of quotes, saying and thoughts by Orison Swett Marden that are sure to encourage and motivate you to strive hard.
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
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
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
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.
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.
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.
A woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to herself the creative powers of the universe.
Orison Swett Marden
What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.
Orison Swett Marden
Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say "No," though all the world say "Yes.
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 desires
Orison Swett Marden
You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.
The tonic of success is a marvelous producer as well as stimulant. By the law of mental magnetism one success attracts another, and after we begin to win it is comparatively easy to keep on winning.
Orison Swett Marden
Let the adverse breath of criticism be to you only what the blast of the storm wind is to the eagle,—a force against him that lifts him higher.
The first part of success is "Get-to-it-iveness"; the second part of success is "Stick-to-it-iveness".
Orison Swett Marden
The highest happiness is the feeling of wellbeing which comes to one who is actively employed in doing what he was made to do; carrying out the great life-purpose patterned in his individual bent.
The power of material things, to bestow happiness, to bring joy into the life is tremendously exaggerated. The right mental attitude, the trained mind, will bring to us the best there is in the universe.
Most of us do not prepare for a large career because we do not expect enough of ourselves.
Orison Swett Marden
Don't think you have no chance in life because you have no capital to begin with. Most of the rich men of to-day began poor. The chances are you would be ruined if you had capital.
The educated man ought to be able to do something better, something higher than merely to put money in his purse. Money-making can not compare with man-making.
The college diploma has no more power to hold the knowledge you have gained in college than a piece of tissue paper over a gas jet can hold the gas in the pipe.
Genius unexecuted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
Orison Swett Marden
It is not so much a question of how far you have traveled as which way you face. It is facing life the right way, with .the right spirit, that will push you forward.
