Orison Swett Marden quotes and words of wisdom

"Your expectation 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."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"What a great discrepancy there is between men and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability and concentrating them upon one point."
Found in the topic Ability.

"Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success, may be crowded with grand possibilities."
Found in the topic Work.

"There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self-respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a king."
Found in the topic Courage.

"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 desire."
Found in the topic Sorrow.

"The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose."
Found in the topic Concentration.

"We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere ? your ideal of what you long to attain ? the ideal of health, efficiency, success."
Found in the topic Idea.

"No man fails who does his best...."
Found in the topic Best.

"Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us"
Found in the topic Life.

"People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others so them, but always a little better. They always pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the quality of life"s work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that conquers the heights of excellence."
Found in the topic Accomplishment.

"The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action."
Found in the topic Give.

"We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, we are confident and believe we are going to succeed."
Found in the topic Belief.

"Go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will see farther."
Found in the topic Get.

"If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place."
Found in the topic Growth.

"The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act."
Found in the topic Habit.

"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 when you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight."
Found in the topic Obstacles.

"It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as hard, if not harder, than day laborers; and that the most obvious reason why they have been superior to other men is that they have taken more pains than other men."
Found in the topic Gravity.

"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow."
Found in the topic Expectation.

"We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns."
Found in the topic World.

"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 have millions is covetous."
Found in the topic Potential.

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