110+ Orison Swett Marden Quotes On Education, Religion And Front

Orison Swett Marden was an American writer, best known for his inspirational writings on success. He was a pioneer in the field of personal success literature and wrote more than 50 books on the subject. His works include Pushing to the Front, Cheerfulness as a Life Power, and The Secret of Achievement. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Orison Swett Marden on education, love, religion.

Top 10 Orison Swett Marden Quotes

1. Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
2. Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
3. There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
4. We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
5. 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.
6. The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
7. It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
8. 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.
9. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
10. We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.

Orison Swett Marden Short Quotes

• All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
• Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
• It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
• Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
• It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.
• Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
• Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
• The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.
• A good system shortens the road to the goal.
• We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.

Orison Swett Marden Quotes About Education

Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will. — Orison Swett Marden

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

Even the men most richly endowed with ability, education, and opportunity, even the giants of the race, after the completest life possible, feel, as they stand on the edge of the grave, that they are but human acorns with all their possibilities still in them, just beginning to sprout. — Orison Swett Marden

Orison Swett Marden Quotes About Love

You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company - a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion. — Orison Swett Marden

Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being. — Orison Swett Marden

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

Orison Swett Marden Quotes About Inspiring

Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made. — Orison Swett Marden

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success. — Orison Swett Marden

Paradise is here or nowhere: you must take your joy with you or you will never find it. — Orison Swett Marden

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. — Orison Swett Marden

Put yourself in your customer's place. — Orison Swett Marden

The world makes way for the man with an idea. — Orison Swett Marden

Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater! — Orison Swett Marden

The inspiration of a single book has made preachers, poets, philosophers, authors, and statesmen. On the other hand, the demoralization of a single book has sometimes made infidels, profligates, and criminals. — Orison Swett Marden

Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do. — Orison Swett Marden

Dreams that are realized become an inspiration for new endeavor. It is in the power to make the dream good that we find the hope of this world. — Orison Swett Marden

Orison Swett Marden Quotes About Motivational

Fear is a great robber of power. It paralyzes the thinking faculties, ruins spontaneity, enthusiasm, and self confidence. It has a blighting effect upon all one's thoughts, moods, and efforts. It destroys ambition and efficiency. — Orison Swett Marden

Self-confidence carries conviction; it makes other people believe in us. — Orison Swett Marden

The first part of success is 'Get-to-it-iveness'; the second part of success is 'Stick-to-it-iveness'. — Orison Swett Marden

Orison Swett Marden Quotes About Life

If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. — Orison Swett Marden

Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action. — Orison Swett Marden

Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day. — Orison Swett Marden

Aspiration lifts the life; groveling lowers it. When we are striving for excellence in everything we do the entire life grows and expands, but if we allow our standards to drop, there is a natural progression that follows, a tendency for a downward effort in all that we do thereafter. — Orison Swett Marden

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. — Orison Swett Marden

Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life's machinery. — Orison Swett Marden

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. — Orison Swett Marden

There can be no life which does not contain something to be grateful for, and the habit of gratitude is one of the most powerful assets of success and happiness which can be named. — Orison Swett Marden

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling. — Orison Swett Marden

Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in — Orison Swett Marden

Orison Swett Marden Quotes About Success

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

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else. — Orison Swett Marden

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires. — Orison Swett Marden

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours. — Orison Swett Marden

A woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to herself the creative powers of the universe. — 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 been given him. This is success, and there is no other. — Orison Swett Marden

No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price. — Orison Swett Marden

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities. — Orison Swett Marden

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage;...true success follows every right step. — Orison Swett Marden

Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances. — Orison Swett Marden

Orison Swett Marden Quotes About Excellence

It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame. — Orison Swett Marden

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

Doing common things uncommonly well. — Orison Swett Marden

Superiority -- doing things a little better than anybody else can do them. — Orison Swett Marden

It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others. — 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 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. — Orison Swett Marden

Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened. — Orison Swett Marden

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

Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hall-mark of excellence. — Orison Swett Marden

Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark... — Orison Swett Marden

Orison Swett Marden Quotes About Failure

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. — Orison Swett Marden

You must bring every particle of your energy, unanswerable resolution, your best efforts, your persistent industry to your task or the best will not come out of you. You must back up your ambition by your whole nature, by unbounded enthusiasm and a determination to win which knows no failure. — Orison Swett Marden

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor; the unconquerable will. — Orison Swett Marden

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

As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure — Orison Swett Marden

No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life. — Orison Swett Marden

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. — Orison Swett Marden

The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm. — Orison Swett Marden

Defeats and failures are great developers of character. They have made the giants of our race by giving Titanic muscles, brawny sinews, and far-reaching intellects. — Orison Swett Marden

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - this is happiness, this is success. — Orison Swett Marden

Orison Swett Marden Quotes About Work

Anybody can work when everything goes smoothly, when there is nothing to trouble him; but a man must be made of the right kind of stuff who can rise above the things which harass and handicap the weak, and do his work in spite of them. Indeed, this is the test of greatness. — Orison Swett Marden

When you finish a thing you ought to be able to say to yourself: 'There, I am willing to stand for that piece of work. It is not pretty well done; it is done as well as I can do it; done to a complete finish. I will stand for that. I am willing to be judged by it.' — Orison Swett Marden

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

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. — Orison Swett Marden

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work. — Orison Swett Marden

No matter how humble your work may seem, do it in the spirit of an artist, of a master. In this way you lift it out of commonness and rob it of what would otherwise be drudgery. — Orison Swett Marden

What we do for a living does not matter as much as how we do it. — Orison Swett Marden

Every one who has labored honestly in the past has aided to place knowledge and comfort within the reach of a constantly increasing number. — Orison Swett Marden

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. — Orison Swett Marden

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. — Orison Swett Marden

Orison Swett Marden Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Orison Swett Marden

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

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind. — Orison Swett Marden

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us. — Orison Swett Marden

One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring. — Orison Swett Marden

There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us. — Orison Swett Marden

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone. — 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

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. — Orison Swett Marden

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. — Orison Swett Marden

It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world. — Orison Swett Marden

There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do. — Orison Swett Marden

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. — Orison Swett Marden

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself? — 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

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. — Orison Swett Marden

No man can hope to accomplish anything great in this world until he throws his whole soul, flings the force of his whole life, into it. It is not enough simply to have a general desire to accomplish something. There is but one way to do that; and that is, to try to be somebody with all the concentrated energy we can muster. — Orison Swett Marden

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

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. — Orison Swett Marden

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. — Orison Swett Marden

Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. It is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world. — Orison Swett Marden

What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul. — Orison Swett Marden

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us... — Orison Swett Marden

Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished. — Orison Swett Marden

A will finds a way. — Orison Swett Marden

Opportunities? They are all around us...There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it. — Orison Swett Marden

Be larger than your task. — Orison Swett Marden

There's no grander sight in the world than that of a person fired with a great purpose, dominated by one unwavering aim. — Orison Swett Marden

Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up. — Orison Swett Marden

Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel. — Orison Swett Marden

We fail to see that we can control our own destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be. — Orison Swett Marden

How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles, the air seems more balmy, the sky clearer, the earth has a brighter green... the flowers are more fragrant... and the sun, moon, and stars all appear more beautiful, and seem to rejoice with us. — Orison Swett Marden

You know from past experiences that whenever you have been driven to the wall, or thought you were, you have extricated yourself in a way which you never would have dreamed possible had you not been put to the test. The trouble is that in your everyday life you don't go deep enough to tap the divine mind within you. — Orison Swett Marden

Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep the wolf from the door. — Orison Swett Marden

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. — Orison Swett Marden

The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into it, has not learned the first principles of success or happiness. — Orison Swett Marden

Laughter brightens the eye, increases the perspiration, expands the chest, forces the poisoned air from the least-used cells, and tends to restore that exquisite poise or balance which we call health. — Orison Swett Marden

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

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. — Orison Swett Marden

You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it. — Orison Swett Marden

Opportunity is latent in the very foundation of human society. Opportunity is everywhere about us. But the preparation to seize upon the opportunity, and to make the most of it, is to be made by every one for himself ... he will be self-made or never made. — Orison Swett Marden

The wearer of smiles and the bearer of a kindly disposition needs no introduction, but is welcome anywhere. — 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

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him. — Orison Swett Marden

There is no medicine like hope. — Orison Swett Marden

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. — Orison Swett Marden

No man fails who does his best. — Orison Swett Marden

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. — Orison Swett Marden

The moment man cuts himself off from living connection with the human race and its needs, he begins to die from poor circulation. — Orison Swett Marden

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves. — Orison Swett Marden

Life Lessons by Orison Swett Marden

1. Orison Swett Marden encourages readers to take responsibility for their own lives and to focus on personal growth and development. He believes that success is a matter of attitude and that a positive outlook is essential for achieving goals.
2. He emphasizes the importance of hard work, persistence, and dedication, and encourages readers to take risks and embrace failure as a learning opportunity.
3. He encourages readers to be mindful of their mental and physical health, to practice self-discipline, and to strive for balance in life.