417 Quotes by Orison Swett Marden

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.

It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.

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

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes – every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.