Top 169 Quotes by Orison Swett Marden

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

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 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.

When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.

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.