Orison Swett Marden

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young.

— Orison Swett Marden

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

— Orison Swett Marden

Opportunity always looks bigger going than coming.

— Orison Swett Marden

“The disgrace is not in falling, but in not rising every time you fall.”

— Orison Swett Marden

“freely ye have received, freely give.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Every child should be taught to expect success

— Orison Swett Marden

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

— Orison Swett Marden

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

— Orison Swett Marden

“Most of us do not prepare for a large career because we do not expect enough of ourselves.”

— Orison Swett Marden

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

— Orison Swett Marden

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

— Orison Swett Marden

We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long…

— Orison Swett Marden

Let your air be that of a winner, a man who is resolved to make his way in the world, to make…

— Orison Swett Marden

The first part of success is 'Get-to-it-iveness'; the second part of success is 'Stick-to-it-iveness'.

— Orison Swett Marden

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

— Orison Swett Marden

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

— Orison Swett Marden

“Every word we speak is an indestructible force, because it affirms a thought, a sentiment, an emotion, a motive, which never ceases…

— Orison Swett Marden

A woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to…

— Orison Swett Marden

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The…

— Orison Swett Marden

“About as poor business as one can engage in is that of going through life with one's eyes so fixed upon what…

— Orison Swett Marden

“Mr. Arthur Brisbane says: "One thing above all brings success—to like your work and to be interested in it; and not to…

— Orison Swett Marden

“A man should be so much greater than any material failure that can come to him that it would scarcely be mentioned…

— Orison Swett Marden

The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add…

— Orison Swett Marden

Who would have ever heard of Theodore Roosevelt outside of his immediate community if he had only half committed himself? The great…

— Orison Swett Marden

“Success comes through a perfectly scientific mental process. The man who becomes prosperous believes that he is going to be prosperous. He…

— Orison Swett Marden

People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been…

— Orison Swett Marden

There is a legend of an artist who long sought for a piece of sandalwood, out of which to carve a Madonna.…

— Orison Swett Marden

“The greatest thing a man can possibly do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that…

— Orison Swett Marden

“The great mass of people do not extract ten per cent, of the happiness possible in their everyday life, largely because they…

— Orison Swett Marden

“You cannot look into a cradle and read the secret message traced by a divine hand and wrapped up in that bit…

— Orison Swett Marden

“You could be on the other side of the door which you think is barred against you. It will open wide when…

— Orison Swett Marden

“Hold any particular thought in the mind persistently until it has formed grooves in the brain-tissue and become dominant in the brain…

— Orison Swett Marden

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

— Orison Swett Marden

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

— Orison Swett Marden

To think you can creates the force that can.

— Orison Swett Marden

How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?

— Orison Swett Marden

Character: the grandest thing in the world.

— Orison Swett Marden

Put yourself in your customer's place.

— Orison Swett Marden

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

— Orison Swett Marden

Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.

— Orison Swett Marden