Orison Swett Marden Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Orison Swett Marden quotes, Orison Swett Marden sayings, and Orison Swett Marden proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us. Orison Swett Marden
One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing. Orison Swett Marden
The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place. Orison Swett Marden
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
The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power. Orison Swett Marden
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. Orison Swett Marden
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. Orison Swett Marden
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow Orison Swett Marden
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible. Orison Swett Marden
Believe with all of your heart that you will do what you were made to do. Orison Swett Marden
We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest. Orison Swett Marden
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. Orison Swett Marden
Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people. Orison Swett Marden
Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power. Orison Swett Marden
The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a human being from any other experience. Orison Swett Marden
Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up. Orison Swett Marden
Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us. Orison Swett Marden
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. Orison Swett Marden
A good system shortens the road to the goal. Orison Swett Marden
We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns Orison Swett Marden
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. Orison Swett Marden
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. Orison Swett Marden
Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations. Orison Swett Marden
A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system; work keeps it in health and order. Orison Swett Marden
The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty. Orison Swett Marden
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world. Orison Swett Marden
The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor. Orison Swett Marden
Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight. Orison Swett Marden
Most obstacles melt away when we make up our minds to walk boldly through them. Orison Swett Marden
More men are ruined by underestimating the value of money than by overestimating it. Let us, then, abandon the affectation of despising money, and frankly own its value. Orison Swett Marden