Top 200 Orison Swett Marden Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.”

— Orison Swett Marden

52. “We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.”

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53. “Doing common things uncommonly well.”

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54. “Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.”

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55. “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.”

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56. “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

57. “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.”

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58. “The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.”

— Orison Swett Marden

59. “Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in.”

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60. “No one should voluntarily remain in an environment which prevents his development.”

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61. “One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring.”

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62. “Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.”

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63. “There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will.”

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64. “The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.”

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65. “We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.”

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66. “Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.”

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67. “The wearer of smiles and the bearer of a kindly disposition needs no introduction, but is welcome anywhere.”

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68. “We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.”

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69. “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.”

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

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71. “Whatever comes to us in life we create first in our mentality. As the building is a reality in all its details in the architects mind before a stone or brick is laid, so we create mentally everything which later becomes a reality in our achievement.”

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72. “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.”

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73. “The trouble with us is that we expect too much from the great happenings, the unusual things, and we overlook the common flowers on the path of life, from which we might abstract sweets, comforts, delights.”

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74. “There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.”

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75. “Aspiration lifts the life; groveling lowers it. When we are striving for excellence in everything we do the entire life grows and expands, but if we allow our standards to drop, there is a natural progression that follows, a tendency for a downward effort in all that we do thereafter.”

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76. “Every child should be taught to expect success.”

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77. “You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.”

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78. “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.”

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79. “Dreams that are realized become an inspiration for new endeavor. It is in the power to make the dream good that we find the hope of this world.”

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80. “Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.”

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81. “Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep the wolf from the door.”

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82. “How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?”

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83. “Paradise is here or nowhere: you must take your joy with you or you will never find it.”

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84. “Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.”

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85. “If you cannot at first control your anger, learn to control your tongue, which, like fire, is a good servant, but a hard master.”

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86. “What we sincerely believe regarding ourselves is true for us.”

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87. “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.”

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88. “Genius, that power which dazzles mortal eyes, is but perseverance in disguise.”

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89. “Mirth is God’s medicine; everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all the rust of life- ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth.”

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90. “There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.”

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91. “It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.”

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92. “The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.”

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93. “The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of the weak.”

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94. “Our thoughts are like roots which reach out in every direction into the cosmic ocean of formless energy, and these thought-roots set in motion vibrations like themselves and attract the affinities of our desires and ambitions.”

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95. “The power of material things, to bestow happiness, to bring joy into the life is tremendously exaggerated. But The right mental attitude for example gratitude that things are not worse, the trained mind the right habits of thought – lifeskills, will bring to us the best there is in the universe.”

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96. “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.”

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97. “Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young.”

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98. “When you finish a thing you ought to be able to say to yourself: ‘There, I am willing to stand for that piece of work. It is not pretty well done; it is done as well as I can do it; done to a complete finish. I will stand for that. I am willing to be judged by it.’”

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99. “It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master’s fame.”

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100. “No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.”

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