Quotes by 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.”

“If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fo...”

“Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.”

“We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.”

“A will finds a way.”

“One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a u...”

“Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.”

“It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.”

“Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed pay the price and it is yours. ”

“A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.”

“The tonic of success is a marvelous producer as well as stimulant. By the law of mental magnetism one success attracts another, and after we begin to win it is comparatively easy to keep on winning.”

“The college diploma has no more power to hold the knowledge you have gained in college than a piece of tissue paper over a gas jet can hold the gas in the pipe.”

“We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.”

“Most men fail not through lack of education but from lack of dogged determination from lack of dauntless will.”

“Live and let live is not enough live and help live is not too much.”

“There is no medicine like hope no incentive so great and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.”

“The hopeful man sees success where others see failure sunshine where others see shadows and storm.”

“Our destiny changes with our thoughts we shall become what we wish to become do what we wish to do when our habitual thoughts correspond with our desires.”

“The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'”

“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.”