417 Quotes by Orison Swett Marden

One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring.

The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

There is no medicine like hope ...

We cannot separate our lives from time. Why is it that we are so extravagant, so thoughtless, in our waste of time, especially in youth, when we cling so tenaciously to life? You cannot separate a wasted hour from the same duration of your life. If you waste your time, you must waste your life. If you improve your time, you cannot help improving your life.

Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure

Defeats and failures are great developers of character. They have made the giants of our race by giving Titanic muscles, brawny sinews, and far-reaching intellects.

Money, influence, and position are nothing compared with brains, principles, energy and perseverances.

It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.