We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the gen...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see y...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit. When the soul throws its windows wide open, lett...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no d...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Our visions are the plans of the possible life structure, but they will end in plans if we do not fo...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; w...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is ...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valu...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, ...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far of...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unp...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Be larger than your task.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The world is full of human lobsters; men stranded on the rocks of indecision and procrastination, wh...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way bac...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in ...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything yo...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The greatest thing a man can do in this world, is to make the most possible out of the stuff that ha...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN No man fails who does his best...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or h...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hop...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in l...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Opportunities? They are all around us...There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the obser...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very u...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wai...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of unto...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your tas...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN A good system shortens the road to the goal.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridic...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstac...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which w...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN A will finds a way.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in t...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one pl...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Concentration is the factor that causes the great discrepancy between men and the results they achie...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN You know from past experiences that whenever you have been driven to the wall, or thought you were, ...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN This force, which is the best thing in you, your highest self, will never respond to any ordinary ha...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Resolve that whatever you do, you will bring the whole man to it; that you will fling the whole weig...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN We fail to see that we can control our own destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make our...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN We must give more in order to get more, It is the generous giving of ourselves that produce the gene...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN It is like the seed put in the soil -- the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have goo...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. N...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never ...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is ...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mea...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great hi...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and poun...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of so...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame -- manhood, character, stand for succ...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail,...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable com...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Doing common things uncommonly well.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you a...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothi...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the b...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day ...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Superiority -- doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. The...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manh...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who c...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents an...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly h...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage;...true success follows every r...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our min...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do,...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His ...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which h...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored b...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persisten...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed u...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our m...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outsi...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Every man ultimately falls into the company with which he affiliates. And he is the strongest who dr...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN More men are ruined by underestimating the value of money than by overestimating it. Let us, then, a...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal sno...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN With five chances on each hand and one unwavering aim, no boy, however poor, need despair. There is ...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The man who practises unselfishness, who is genuinely interested in the welfare of others, who feels...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready ...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Many a man owes his advancement very largely to his ability to converse well. The ability to interes...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN One can make no better investment than the cultivation of a taste for the beautiful, for it will bri...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pess...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored b...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work hon...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
ORISON SWETT MARDEN It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportuni...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The world takes us at our own valuation. It believes in the man who believes in himself, but it has ...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Our dreaming capacity gives us a peep into the glorious realities that await us further on. It is th...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN What is enthusiasm but a passionate belief in what seems to be a high and holy aim - an unselfish de...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open y...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN No man can stand still; the moment progress is not made, retrogression begins. If the blade is not k...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Existence is the privilege of effort, and when that privilege is met like a man, opportunities to su...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Do not give up your dream because it is apparently not being realized, because you cannot see it com...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN No one is mocked with the yearning for that which he has no ability to attain. If he holds the right...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Open eyes will discover opportunities everywhere; open ears will never fail to detect the cries of t...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Live in the very soul of expectation of better things, in the conviction that something large, grand...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and se...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cult...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even control...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up c...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Never allow yourself to dwell upon your weaknesses, deficiencies, or failures. Holding firmly the id...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ce...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of so...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which h...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean,...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the pric...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN What keeps so many employers back is simple unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, th...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own p...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridicu...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the ...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and ...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly ...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN There are powers inside of you, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly ...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The glow of satisfaction which follows the consciousness of doing our level best never comes to a hu...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Nearly all the great improvements, discoveries, inventions, and achievements which have elevated and...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his ...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nat...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN There is not a single indication in man's wonderful mechanism that he was created for a life of ...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN When the sacredness of one's word is matched in the attributes of his character throughout, all ...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Circumstances have rarely favored great men. A lowly beginning is no bar to a great career. The boy ...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and e...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the e...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen and historians, men of the most brilliant ...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succee...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being
ORISON SWETT MARDEN There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in ...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The golden rule for every business man is this: ''Put yourself in your customer's place.''
ORISON SWETT MARDEN No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone. As long as a man faces life hop...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and oth...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own p...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Existence without an aim, without a worthy purpose, is worse than wasted
ORISON SWETT MARDEN But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Thi...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage...true success follows every ri...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN "When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN What a great discrepancy there is between men and the results they achieve! It is due to the differe...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the b...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Opportunities? They are all around us. There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observ...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Most of us are at war with ourselves, are our own worst enemies. We expect a great deal of ourselves...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Form the habit early in life of leaving your business at the store or wherever you may be employed. ...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN What is needed by him who would succeed in the highest degree possible is careful planning. He is to...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the m...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of you...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Celebrate your success and stand strong when adversity hits, for when the storm clouds come in, the ...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in l...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how b...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see y...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame. Manhood and character stand for succ...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN No man fails who does his best.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Necessity has been a priceless spur which has helped men to perform miracles against incredible odds...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN History furnishes thousands of examples of men who have seized occasions to accomplish results deeme...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN