Top 169 Quotes by Orison Swett Marden

One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.

The ability to cultivate friends is a powerful aid to success. It is capital which will stand by one when panics come, when banks fail, when business concerns go to the wall.

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

Many a man owes his advancement very largely to his ability to converse well. The ability to interest people in your conversation, to hold them, is a great power.

What is needed by him who would succeed in the highest degree possible is careful planning. He is to accumulate reserved power, that he may be equal to all emergencies.

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

Existence is the privilege of effort, and when that privilege is met like a man, opportunities to succeed along the line of your aptitude will come faster than you can use them.

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

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

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