Orison Swett Marden Quotes

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

Gardening, Put, Greater

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
Orison Swett Marden

Sympathy, Trials, Develop

There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
Orison Swett Marden

Good, Sunshine, Through

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.
Orison Swett Marden

Success, Cannot, Child

A will finds a way.
Orison Swett Marden

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
Orison Swett Marden

Work, Character, True

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
Orison Swett Marden

Great, After, Victory

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

Alone, Yourself, Help

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.
Orison Swett Marden

Success, Young, Sometimes

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.
Orison Swett Marden

Him, Youth, Possible

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
Orison Swett Marden

Great, Courage, Confidence

There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
Orison Swett Marden

Trust, Power, Best

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
Orison Swett Marden

Business, Yourself, Put

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

Career, Necessary, Analyzing

The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.
Orison Swett Marden

Successful, Rich, Poor

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.
Orison Swett Marden

Money, Nothing, Enjoy

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

Through, Before, Away

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
Orison Swett Marden

Mind, Law, Whatever

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

Success, Greatest, Him

A good system shortens the road to the goal.
Orison Swett Marden

Good, Goal, Road

It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
Orison Swett Marden

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
Orison Swett Marden

Best, Giving, Give

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.
Orison Swett Marden

Heart, Cannot, Hand

The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
Orison Swett Marden

Work, Long, Quality

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

Everything, Become, Inside

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: 1850

Died: 1924

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