Top 326 Quotes & Sayings by Orison Swett Marden - Page 6

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

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young.

A man will remain a rag-picker as long as he has only the vision of a rag-picker.

No matter how humble your work may seem, do it in the spirit of an artist, of a master. In this way you lift it out of commonness and rob it of what would otherwise be drudgery.

Doing common things uncommonly well.

The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm.

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.

Every child should be taught to expect success

Every one who has labored honestly in the past has aided to place knowledge and comfort within the reach of a constantly increasing number.

Men are naturally lazy, and require some great stimulus to goad their flagging ambitions and enable them to overcome the inertia which comes from ease and the consciousness of inherited wealth. Whatever lessens in a young man the feeling that he must make his way in the world cripples his chance of success. Poverty has ever been the priceless spur that has goaded man up to his own loaf.

As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure

What we sincerely believe regarding ourselves is true for us.

Who would have ever heard of Theodore Roosevelt outside of his immediate community if he had only half committed himself? The great secret of his career was that he has flung his whole life with all the determination and energy he could muster.

Let us open up our natures, throw wide the doors of our hearts and let in the sunshine of good will and kindness.

Who can estimate the real wealth that inheres in a fine character. . . . How base and mean money and huge estates look in comparison. All other things fade before it. Its touch is like magic to win friendship, influence, power. Can you afford to chill, to discourage, to crush out of your life this sweet, sensitive plant, which would flower in your nature and give added glory to your life, for the sake of a few dollars, a little questionable fame?

If we get the good that belongs to us here and now, we must extract the sweetness of each passing minute while it is ours. That is the real art of living in the today.

We can give our smiles, our encouragement, our sympathy to someone who needs them every day of the year.

Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage...true success follows every right step.

Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical and mental health, to your growth in efficiency and power.

No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more - to be happy and successful - than much money.

The divine injunction to be perfect, even as He is perfect, was not given man to mock him. The possibility of our waking in His likeness is literally true.

The inspiration of a single book has made preachers, poets, philosophers, authors, and statesmen. On the other hand, the demoralization of a single book has sometimes made infidels, profligates, and criminals.

No one should voluntarily remain in an environment which prevents his development.

It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.

Character is a mark cut upon something, and this indelible mark determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.