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Orison Swett Marden

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Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) was an American author and founder of SUCCESS magazine. Inspired by the self-help writings of Samuel Smiles, Marden became one of the pioneers of the American success movement, writing over 50 books on achievement, ambition, and the power of positive thinking.

“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

Nature

All Quotes by 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.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Best

“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

Nature

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

— Orison Swett Marden

Work

“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

“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

“Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Imagination

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

— Orison Swett Marden

Gardening

“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

Courage

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

— Orison Swett Marden

Great

“No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Success

“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Great

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

— Orison Swett Marden

Good

“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

“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.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Alone

“No man fails who does his best.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Best

“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

Home

“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

Work

“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

“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

Alone

“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