Orison Swett Marden Quotes on Man (23 Quotes)


    It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as hard, if not harder, than day laborers and that the most obvious reason why they have been superior to other men is that they have taken more pains than other men.


    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.

    No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

    A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.


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

    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.


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

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

    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.

    There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

    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.

    When a man feels throbbing within him, the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say 'amen' to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, this is happiness, this is success.

    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.

    Concentrate ... for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul.

    Concentration is the factor that causes the great discrepancy between men and the results they achieve. . . the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability and concentrating on one point.

    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.

    What a great discrepancy there is between men and the results they achieve It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability and concentrating them upon one point.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.


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