417 Quotes by Orison Swett Marden

Opportunity is coy, is swift, is gone, before the slow, the unobservant, the indolent, or the careless can seize her.

We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.

The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.

Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.

We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't.

There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can't.

There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure for the determined endeavor, the conquerable will. There is no failure for the man who gets up every time he falls, who rebounds like a rubber ball, who persists when everyone else gives up, who pushes on when everyone else turns back.

Society is to the individual what the sun and showers are to the seed. It develops him, expands him, unfolds him, calls him out of himself. Other men are his opportunity. Each one is a match which ignites some new tinder in him unignitible by any previous match. Without these the sparks of individuality would sleep in him forever.