Famous quotes by »

Orison Swett Marden

Orison Swett Marden (1850 - 1924) was an American writer associated with the New Thought Movement. He also held a degree in medicine, and was a successful hotel owner

Update this biography »
Complete biography of Orison Swett Marden »

0 fans

Sort by:PopularityA - Z

A will finds a way.

– Orison Swett Marden

Rate it:

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

– Orison Swett Marden

Rate it:

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

– Orison Swett Marden

Rate it:

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

Rate it:

Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us

– Orison Swett Marden

Rate it:

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say "amen" to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - this is happiness, this is success.

– Orison Swett Marden

Rate it:

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

Rate it:

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

– Orison Swett Marden

Rate it:

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

– Orison Swett Marden

Rate it:

But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind -- Act!

– Orison Swett Marden

Rate it:

If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could throw us off our center, so that no matter what misfortune should overtake us, there would still be a whole magnificent man or woman left after being stripped of everything else.

– Orison Swett Marden

Rate it:

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

– Orison Swett Marden

Rate it:

It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.

– Orison Swett Marden

Rate it:

It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.

– Orison Swett Marden

Rate it:

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

Rate it:

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.

– Orison Swett Marden

Rate it:

Opportunities? They are all around us... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

– Orison Swett Marden

Rate it:

Our destiny changes with our thought we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

– Orison Swett Marden

Rate it:

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

– Orison Swett Marden

Rate it:

Superiority -- doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.

– Orison Swett Marden

Rate it:

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

– Orison Swett Marden

Rate it:

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

Rate it:

The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within of us so weak and intermittent that it makes no impression upon the creative energies; it lacks the force that transmutes desires into realities.

– Orison Swett Marden

Rate it:

There are powers inside of you, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

– Orison Swett Marden

Rate it:

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

Rate it:

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

– Orison Swett Marden

Rate it:

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

– Orison Swett Marden

Rate it:

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

Rate it:

We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.

– Orison Swett Marden

Rate it:

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

Rate it:

Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.

– Orison Swett Marden

Rate it:

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - this is happiness, this is success.

– Orison Swett Marden

Rate it:

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

– Orison Swett Marden

Rate it:

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

Rate it:

Share your thoughts on Orison Swett Marden's quotes with the community:

0 Comments

Notify me of new comments via email.

Quote of the Day Today's Quote | Archive

Would you like us to send you a FREE inspiring quote delivered to your inbox daily?

Citation

Use the citation below to add this author page to your bibliography:

Style:MLAChicagoAPA

"Orison Swett Marden Quotes." Quotes.net. STANDS4 LLC, 2025. Web. 5 Feb. 2025. <https://www.quotes.net/authors/Orison+Swett+Marden+Quotes>.

Missing a quote of Orison Swett Marden?

Know another good quote of Orison Swett Marden? Don't keep it to yourself!

The Web's Largest Resource for

Famous Quotes & Sayings

A Member Of The STANDS4 Network

Our favorite collection of

Famous Authors

Mark Twain
1835 - 1910
Sigmund Freud
1856 - 1939
Al Capone
1899 - 1947
Edgar Allan Poe
1809 - 1849
Ernest Hemingway
1899 - 1961
Aristotle
384 BC - 322 BC
Winston Churchill
1874 - 1965

Browse Quotes.net

#A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Random New Quotes

Quiz

Are you a quotes master?

In which movie does this quote appear: "I don't like violence, Tom. I'm a businessman; blood is a big expense"?

A Rush Hour

B The Godfather

C Blade

D Ocean's Eleven