65 Quotes By Orison Swett Marden


Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.
Orison Swett Marden on great

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Orison Swett Marden on great

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

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

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.
Orison Swett Marden on great

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 on great

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

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.
Orison Swett Marden on great

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.
Orison Swett Marden on great

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.
Orison Swett Marden on great

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
Orison Swett Marden on great

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

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

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Orison Swett Marden on imagination

Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
Orison Swett Marden on imagination

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison Swett Marden on knowledge

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.
Orison Swett Marden on men

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Orison Swett Marden on men

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
Orison Swett Marden on money

We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
Orison Swett Marden on motivational