Orison Swett Marden Famous Quotes
A will finds a way.
"Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished."
"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."
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
"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."
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
"When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - this is happiness, this is success."
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.
"Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them."
"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."
"We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns."
"Our destiny changes with our thought we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire."
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.
Orison Swett Marden Quotations
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward."
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
We are all strong enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
La Rochefoucauld
"Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone."
Hodding Carter
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Thomas Jefferson
How far that little candle throws his beams So shines a good deed in a weary world.
William Shakespeare
"Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone."
Pyrrhus
"From the way Denny's shaking his head, he's either got an injured shoulder or a gnat in his eye."
Jerry Coleman
"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
Sir Winston Churchill
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Quincy Adams