Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“I am success. Though hungry, cold, ill-clad, I wander for a while, and I smile and say: ‘It is but for a… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Concentrate . . . for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Never allow yourself to dwell on your weaknesses, your failures, your unhappy condition. Hold firmly the ideal of your efficiency, your competency,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The first part of success is 'Get-to-it-iveness'; the second part of success is 'Stick-to-it-iveness'. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Whatever comes to us in life we create first in our mentality. As the building is a reality in all its details… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“The human mind is happiest when it is most active in performing the functions which it was intended to perform. One of… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Without continuous effort there cannot be continuous achievement. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“What we do when defeat stares us in the face is the real touchstone of character. But the very fact that success… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Always carry yourself as though you were marching to victory, make this impression upon everyone who sees you. Let victory stand out… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“We can so educate the will power that it will focus the thoughts upon the bright side of things, and upon objects which elevate… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Gulliver was a giant whom the dwarfs captured while he was napping by binding him with tiny threads. Each thread was a trifle which… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“The hatred thought cannot live an instant in the presence of the love thought.” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“About as poor business as one can engage in is that of going through life with one's eyes so fixed upon what others have,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“We tend to get what we expect, and if we expect nothing we get nothing. The stream cannot rise higher than its fountainhead;” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
There never will be a trust in excellence or a combination in superiority. As long as you can do a thing a little better… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“The universe is one great kindergarten. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The moment man cuts himself off from living connection with the human race and its needs, he begins to die from poor circulation. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
