Orison Swett Marden Quotes - Page 8

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.

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

Let your air be that of a winner, a man who is resolved to make his way in the world, to make himself stand for something.

What we sincerely believe regarding ourselves is true for us.

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.

The trouble with us is that we expect too much from the great happenings, the unusual things, and we overlook the common flowers on the path of life, from which we might abstract sweets, comforts, delights.

One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring.

Put yourself in your customer's place.

Society is to the individual what the sun and showers are to the seed. It develops him, expands him, unfolds him, calls him out of himself. Other men are his opportunity. Each one is a match which ignites some new tinder in him unignitible by any previous match. Without these the sparks of individuality would sleep in him forever.

Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.

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.

Paradise is here or nowhere: you must take your joy with you or you will never find it.

The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.

Every one who has labored honestly in the past has aided to place knowledge and comfort within the reach of a constantly increasing number.

Make every occasion a great occasion, for you can never tell who may be taking your measure for a higher place.

Dreams that are realized become an inspiration for new endeavor. It is in the power to make the dream good that we find the hope of this world.

Opportunity is coy, is swift, is gone, before the slow, the unobservant, the indolent, or the careless can seize her.

Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

There is a legend that when God was equipping man for his long life journey of exploration, the attendant good angel was about to add the gift of contentment and complete satisfaction. The Creator stayed his hand and said, 'No, if you bestow that upon him you will rob him forever of all joy of self-discovery.'

Who would have ever heard of Theodore Roosevelt outside of his immediate community if he had only half committed himself? The great secret of his career was that he has flung his whole life with all the determination and energy he could muster.

As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure

A great many people never really discover themselves until ruin stares them in the face. They do not seem to know how to bring out their reserves until they are overtaken by an overwhelming disaster, or until the sight of their blighted prospects and of the wreck of their homes and happiness stirs them to the very center of their beings.... There is something in defeat which puts new determination into a man of mettle.

Live and let live is not enough; live and help live is not too much.

Mirth is God's medicine; everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all the rust of life- ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth.

We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.