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Orison Swett Marden
1850 - 1924
Nationality: American
Category: Writer
Subcategory: American Writer

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

   

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

   

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

   

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

   

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

   

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

   

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

   

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

   

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.

   

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

   

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.

   

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

   

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.

   

We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.

   

A will finds a way.

   

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.

   

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.

   

You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.

   

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 investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.

   

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