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Inspirational Quotations

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Inspirational Quotes by Orison Swett Marden (American New Thought Writer)

Inspirational Quotations by Orison Swett Marden (American New Thought Writer)

Dr. Orison Swett Marden (1850–1924) was an American inspirational author who wrote on success in life and how to achieve it. 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.

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Go as far as you can see, and when you get there you will see farther.
—Orison Swett Marden
Topics: Goals

But how shall I get ideas? Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind—Act!
—Orison Swett Marden
Topics: Ideas

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

Resolve that whatever you do, you will bring the whole man to it; that you will fling the whole weight of your being into it.
—Orison Swett Marden
Topics: Commitment

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.
—Orison Swett Marden
Topics: Enjoyment

We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
—Orison Swett Marden
Topics: Expectation, Journeys, Goal

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
Topics: Career

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns.
—Orison Swett Marden
Topics: Life, Acceptance

It is like the seed put in the soil—the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
—Orison Swett Marden
Topics: Giving, Charity

We must give more in order to get more, It is the generous giving of ourselves that produce the generous harvest.
—Orison Swett Marden
Topics: Charity, Giving

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
Topics: Enjoyment

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage… true success follows every right step.
—Orison Swett Marden
Topics: Goodness, Success

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
Topics: Vision, Achievement, Prophecy

Live and let live is not enough; live and help live is not too much.
—Orison Swett Marden
Topics: Service

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
Topics: Forgiveness

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

Opportunities? They are all around us… There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
—Orison Swett Marden
Topics: Success, Opportunity, Society

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
Topics: Self-love

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.
—Orison Swett Marden
Topics: Help, Cooperation

A will finds a way.
—Orison Swett Marden
Topics: Attitude

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
Topics: Work

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
Topics: Failure

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
—Orison Swett Marden
Topics: Vision, Prophecy

The hopeful man sees success where others see failure; sunshine where others see shadows and storm.
—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
Topics: Success, Success & Failure

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
—Orison Swett Marden
Topics: Ability

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. 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. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.
—Orison Swett Marden
Topics: Universe, The Universe, Existence, General, Learning

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
Topics: Success, Strength

Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
—Orison Swett Marden
Topics: Potential, Possibilities

Who would have ever heard of Theodore Roosevelt outside of his
immediate community if he had only half committed himself?
The great secret of his career was that he has flung his whole
life with all the determination and energy he could muster.
—Orison Swett Marden

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