Orison Swett Marden
Orison Swett Marden
Dr. Orison Swett Mardenwas an American inspirational author who wrote about achieving success in life and founded SUCCESS magazine in 1897. His writings discuss common-sense principles and virtues that make for a well-rounded, successful life. Many of his ideas are based on New Thought philosophy...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
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With five chances on each hand and one unwavering aim, no boy, however poor, need despair. There is bread and success for every youth under the American flag who has energy and ability to seize his opportunity.
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There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame -- manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does.
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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
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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.
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If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
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We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.
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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 can give our smiles, our encouragement, our sympathy to someone who needs them every day of the year.
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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.
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The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
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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.
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Most men fail, not through lack of education, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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A good system shortens the road to the goal.