Quotes from Orison Swett Marden

Our destiny changes with our thoughts we shall become what we wish to become do what we wish to do when our habitual thoughts correspond with our desires.

Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.

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.

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

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.

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.

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.

Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. It is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.

The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience.

Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power.

Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.

There is no medicine like hope no incentive so great and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

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

Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

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

If you would make the most of yourself, cut away all of your vitality sappers; get rid of everything which hampers you and holds you back, everything which wastes your energy, cuts down your working capital. Get freedom at any cost.

Everybody is struggling for the good things of the world, and all the arguments to prove that they are not desirable are worse than wasted.

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.

If we hold the poverty thought, the penury thought, the thought of lack, we cannot demonstrate abundance. We must hold the plenty thought if we would reach plenty.

Nothing that the mind of man can conceive is impossible.

We are all the products of our own thoughts. Whatever we concentrate upon, that we are.