Orison Swett Marden Quotes (109 Quotes)


    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.

    The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.

    You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.


    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.

    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.

    Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.


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    Voltaire - Dale Carnegie - Thomas Kuhn - Robert Louis Stevenson - Ivo Andric - Herbert Kaufman - Henry Lawson - Dr. Seuss - Bill Bryson - Arthur C. Clarke


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