Top 7 Orison S. Marden Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The strong man, the positive, decisive man who has a program and is determined to carry it out, cuts his way to his goal regardless of difficulties. It is the discouraged man who turns aside and takes a crooked path.”

— Orison S. Marden

2. “It is the direct man who strikes sledgehammer blows, who penetrates the very marrow of a subject at every stroke and gets the meat out of a proposition, who does things.”

— Orison S. Marden

3. “The moment a man ceases to progress, to grow higher, wider and deeper, then his life becomes stagnant.”

— Orison S. Marden

4. “Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. They think it comes from doing something on a big scale, from a big fortune, or from some great achievement, when, in fact, it is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.”

— Orison S. Marden

5. “A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.”

— Orison S. Marden

6. “The ability to talk well is to a man what cutting and polishing are to the rough diamond. The grinding does not add anything to the diamond. It merely reveals its wealth.”

— Orison S. Marden

7. “The size and quality of your achievement will depend largely upon what sort of image you have of yourself at your best.”

— Orison S. Marden

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