3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.
3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden 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.
3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden 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.
3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden 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.
3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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 young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden 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.
3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden 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.
3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.
3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden 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.
3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden 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.
3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden 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.
3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden 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.
3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden It is like the seed put in the soil – the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
