Best Quotes by Orison Swett Marden (Top 10)

  1. 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.
  2. Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
  3. There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
  4. What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.
  5. The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
  6. Most men fail, not through lack of education, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.
  7. 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.
  8. Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
  9. 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.
  10. When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.

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