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Orison Swett Marden Quotes

1804-1924

 

 
 

  • "Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day."

  • "Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation."

  • "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."

  • "We make the world we live in and shape our own environment."

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

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

  • "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."

  • "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."

  • "Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds."

  • "Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities."

  • "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."

  • "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."

  • "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."

  • "It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind."

  • "Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action."

  • "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."

  • "A good system shortens the road to the goal."

  • "A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements."


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