O.s. Marden Quotes

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

Orison Swett Marden

#2. Being an artist is very independent thinking, although there's always going to be a lot of doubt.

Brice Marden

#3. MAN IS THE MAKER OF HIS DESTINY

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#4. Scatter your flowers as you go; you will never go this way again.

Orison Swett Marden

#5. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everyone around us.

Orison Swett Marden

#6. In this kind of super-capitalistic society, everything is turned into money. And one of the great things about art is it isn't worth anything. It's absolutely free. It's going to get made no matter what.

Brice Marden

#7. When you're not smoking anymore, you don't have to carry around a pack of cigarettes, a lighter - all this paraphernalia. So you're liberated in a certain sense. It's the same with drinking.

Brice Marden

#8. Personal nobility is greater than any calling, or any reward that it can bring.

Orison Swett Marden

#9. The man who would forge to the front in this competitive age must be a man of prompt and determined decision.

Orison Swett Marden

#10. The power of material things, to bestow happiness, to bring joy into the life is tremendously exaggerated. The right mental attitude, the trained mind, will bring to us the best there is in the universe.

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#11. Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?

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#12. A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.

Orison Swett Marden

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

Orison Swett Marden

#14. The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

Orison Swett Marden

#15. There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.

Orison Swett Marden

#16. If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.

Orison Swett Marden

#17. Ambition is the incentive that makes purpose GREAT and ACHIEVEMENT greater!

Orison Swett Marden

#18. The moment a man ceases to progress, to grow higher, wider and deeper, then his life becomes stagnant.

Orison S. Marden

#19. Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Orison Swett Marden

#20. There can be no life which does not contain something to be grateful for, and the habit of gratitude is one of the most powerful assets of success and happiness which can be named.

Orison Swett Marden

#21. Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

Orison Swett Marden

#22. He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning.

Orison Swett Marden

#23. The world is a looking-glass which flings back to us the reflection of ourselves. If we laugh it laughs back at us. If we shed tears, it reflects a sorrowful face.

Orison Swett Marden

#24. A woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to herself the creative powers of the universe.

Orison Swett Marden

#25. There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can't.

Orison Swett Marden

#26. Make every occasion a great occasion, for you can never tell who may be taking your measure for a higher place.

Orison Swett Marden

#27. The wearer of smiles and the bearer of a kindly disposition needs no introduction, but is welcome anywhere.

Orison Swett Marden

#28. The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

Orison Swett Marden

#29. When you finish a thing you ought to be able to say to yourself: 'There, I am willing to stand for that piece of work. It is not pretty well done; it is done as well as I can do it; done to a complete finish. I will stand for that. I am willing to be judged by it.'

Orison Swett Marden

#30. Real happiness comes from the cultivation, the development, of the highest that is in us.

Orison Swett Marden

#31. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.

Orison Swett Marden

#32. Every man must play the part of his ambition. If you are trying to be a successful man, you must play the part.

Orison Swett Marden