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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.

“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

All Quotes by Orison Swett Marden

“The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'”

— Orison Swett Marden

Business

“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

“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

“No man fails who does his best.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Best

“Power gravitates to the man who knows how.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Power

“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

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

— Orison Swett Marden

Gardening

“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

“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

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

— Orison Swett Marden

Great

“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

“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

“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.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Best

“Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Great

“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.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Courage

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

— Orison Swett Marden

Great

“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.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Best

“We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Motivational

“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