Orison Swett Marden Quotes

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
Orison Swett Marden

Great, Yourself, Chance

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

Win, Goal, Face

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
Orison Swett Marden

Successful, Strong, Place

No man fails who does his best.
Orison Swett Marden

No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
Orison Swett Marden

Success, Price, Corner

Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
Orison Swett Marden

Real, Thoughts, Limits

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
Orison Swett Marden

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
Orison Swett Marden

Great, Put, Effort

The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.
Orison Swett Marden

Best, Yourself, Self

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
Orison Swett Marden

Life, Trying, Once

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
Orison Swett Marden

Others, Knowing, Stimulus

We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
Orison Swett Marden

Long, Control, Destiny

We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
Orison Swett Marden

Giving, Give, Ourselves

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
Orison Swett Marden

Power, Home, Heart

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

Knowledge, Wisdom, Become

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
Orison Swett Marden

Mean, Him, Cannot

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
Orison Swett Marden

Work, Nature, Place

You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.
Orison Swett Marden

Else, Succeed, Idea

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: 1850

Died: 1924

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