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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.

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

— Orison Swett Marden

Gardening

All Quotes by Orison Swett Marden

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

— Orison Swett Marden

Success

“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

Alone

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

— Orison Swett Marden

Gardening

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

— Orison Swett Marden

Great

“Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Sympathy

“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.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Courage

“No man fails who does his 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

“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

“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

“The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Best

“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

“Power gravitates to the man who knows how.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Power

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

— Orison Swett Marden

Imagination

“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

“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

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

— Orison Swett Marden

Work

“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

“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.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Great

“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