Orison Swett Marden Quotes

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

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

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.

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

Self-confidence carries conviction; it makes other people believe in us.

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.

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.

To think you can creates the force that can.

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.

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor, the conquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.

There can be no life which does not contain something to be grateful for, and the habit of gratitude is one of the most powerful assets of success and happiness which can be named.

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

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.

Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in

Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.

We lend power to the things we fear!

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to the sea, but waits for the sea to come to him. If it does not come, he remains where he is and dies, although the slightest effort would enable him to reach the waves, which are perhaps within a yard of him. The world is full of human lobsters; people stranded on the rocks of indecision and procrastination, who, instead of putting forth their own energies, are waiting for some grand billow of good fortune to set them afloat.

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

Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.

Self-Control is the very essence of character. To be able to look a man straight in the eye, calmly and deliberately, without the slightest ruffle of temper under extreme provocation, gives a sense of power which nothing else can give. To feel that you are always, not sometimes, master of yourself, gives a dignity and strength to character, buttresses it, supports it on every side, as nothing else can. This is the culmination of thought mastery.

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.

We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.