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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.

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“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

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All Quotes by Orison Swett Marden

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

— Orison Swett Marden

Imagination

“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

“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

“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.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Work

“Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Great

“The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Great

“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

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

— Orison Swett Marden

Good

“When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Time

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

— Orison Swett Marden

Work

“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

“Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Nature

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

— Orison Swett Marden

Great

“Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed pay the price and it is yours.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Success

“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

“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

“The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Money

“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.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Success

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

— Orison Swett Marden

Knowledge

“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

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