Quotes of Orison S. Marden - somelinesforyou

“ Resolve that whatever you do, you will bring the whole man to it; that you will fling the whole weight of your being into it. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one’s being. ”

- Orison S. Marden

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

- Orison S. Marden

“ Self-confidence carries conviction; it makes other people believe in us. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ 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. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ 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. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one’s being. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ Most obstacles melt away when we make up our minds to walk boldly through them. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ The greatest thing a man can do in this world, is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other. ”

- Orison S. Marden

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

- Orison S. Marden

“ Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ The greatest thing a man can do in this world, is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ As the early 20th century writer Orison Swett Marden once said, “Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ 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. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — manhood, character, stand for success…nothing else really does. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. ”

- Orison S. Marden
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