Orison Swett Marden Quotes

• 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.

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• You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one’s being.

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• 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.

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• What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

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• We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.

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• We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

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

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• Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

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• 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.

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• There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

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• There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.

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• 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.

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• There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

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• 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.

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• There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

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• The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

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• The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

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Orison Swett Marden (75)

Birth:	1850
Death:	1924
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author

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