Orison Swett Marden Quotes about Inspirational

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

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

Inspirational, Strength, Strong

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

Inspirational, Dream, Life And Love

Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.3113, e-artnow

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

Inspirational, Confidence, Money

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

Inspirational, Sacrifice, Pay The Price

Orison Swett Marden (1997). “Exceptional Employee”, p.114

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.

Orison Swett Marden

Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

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

Orison Swett Marden

Inspirational, Dream, Positive Thinking

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

Inspirational, Uplifting, Ambition

Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.2038, e-artnow

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

Inspirational, Life, Fear

Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.

Orison Swett Marden

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

Orison Swett Marden (2016). “The Miracle of Right Thought”, p.10, FV Éditions

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

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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

Inspirational, Leadership, Don't Give Up

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

Inspirational, Motivational, Responsibility

Orison Swett Marden (2006). “Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate”, p.43, Cosimo, Inc.

Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

Orison Swett Marden

Inspirational, Success, Graduation

Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.2404, e-artnow

The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.

Orison Swett Marden

Inspirational, Motivational, Time

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't.

Orison Swett Marden

Inspirational, Positive, Thinking

Orison Swett Marden (2015). “An Iron Will, He Can Who Thinks He Can & Pushing To The Front (Wisdom & Empowerment Series): How to Achieve Self-Reliance Which Leads to Vigorous Self-Faith, Personal Growth & Success”, p.591, e-artnow

Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.

Orison Swett Marden

Inspirational, Men, Lasts

Orison Swett Marden (2015). “Architects of Fate”, p.115, Sheba Blake Publishing

We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.

Orison Swett Marden

Inspirational, Life, Success

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

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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

Inspirational, Life, Fun

Orison Swett Marden (2007). “The Young Man Entering Business”, p.45, Cosimo, Inc.

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

Orison Swett Marden

Inspirational, Joy, Paradise

Orison Swett Marden (2015). “ORISON SWETT MARDEN Premium Collection - Wisdom & Empowerment Series (18 Books in One Volume): Steps to Success and Power, How to Get What You Want, An Iron Will, Be Good to Yourself, Every Man A King, Keeping Fit, Prosperity – How to Attract It, Stepping-Stones To Fame And Fortune...”, p.516, e-artnow