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Orison Swett Marden Quotes: 10

  • Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

  • 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.

  • Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

  • Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.

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

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

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

  • All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

  • 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.

    Learn to Expect a Great Deal of Life
  • Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.