417 Quotes by Orison Swett Marden

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone.

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns

Concentration is the factor that causes the great discrepancy between men and the results they achieve the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability and concentrating on one point.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.

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

It is like the seed put in the soil - the one sows, the greater the harvest.

To have done no man a wrong to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire and its gratification but the invisible law of rectitude this is to be a man.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities. Strong men make them.

It is like the seed put in the soil -- the more one sows, the greater the harvest.