417 Quotes by Orison Swett Marden

We lift ourselves by our thought.

The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.

Make every occasion a great occasion, for you can never tell who may be taking your measure for a higher place.

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.

Without continuous effort there cannot be continuous achievement.

No man can hope to accomplish anything great in this world until he throws his whole soul, flings the force of his whole life, into it. It is not enough simply to have a general desire to accomplish something. There is but one way to do that; and that is, to try to be somebody with all the concentrated energy we can muster.

Self-confidence carries conviction; it makes other people believe in us.

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.

The divine injunction to be perfect, even as He is perfect, was not given man to mock him. The possibility of our waking in His likeness is literally true.