417 Quotes by Orison Swett Marden

Dreams that are realized become an inspiration for new endeavor. It is in the power to make the dream good that we find the hope of this world.

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

What a great discrepancy there is between people and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability, and concentrating them upon one point.

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

Play is as necessary to the perfect development of a child as sunshine is to the perfect development of a plant.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system; work keeps it in health and order.

The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.

The trouble with us is that we expect too much from the great happenings, the unusual things, and we overlook the common flowers on the path of life, from which we might abstract sweets, comforts, delights.

There's no grander sight in the world than that of a person fired with a great purpose, dominated by one unwavering aim.