Orison Swett Marden Quotes and its meanings

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

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

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

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

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

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 has millions is covetous.

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

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

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.

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.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

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.

What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?

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.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.

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.

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.

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

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

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.

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.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

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.

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.

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.