Quotes from Orison Swett Marden

Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.

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.

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.

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

Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

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.

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.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

The universe is one great kindergarten. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. 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 our soul.

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

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.

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.

Most obstacles melt away when we make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

A woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to herself the creative powers of the universe.

Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.

Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say "No," though all the world say "Yes.

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

A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everyone around us.

Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence.

You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.

Money, influence, and position are nothing compared with brains, principles, energy and perseverances.

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 desires