There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
"Orison Swett Marden" (1850–1924) was an American inspirational author who wrote on success in life and how to achieve it. His writings discuss common-sense principles and virtues that make for a well-rounded, successful life. Many of his ideas are based on New Thought philosophy.
His first book, Pushing to the Front (1894), became an instant best-seller and remains a classic in the genre of self-help. Marden later published fifty or more books and booklets, averaging two titles per year.
Marden had an unusual ability to strike a chord with his readers, encouraging them with hope and firing them with ambition to achieve. The privations of his childhood and youth, his broad education and his wide business experience in early manhood were factors that enabled him to write with understanding, sympathy and depth. Marden died in 1924 at the age of seventy-four.
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Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.
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.
There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
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.
No man fails who does his best.
Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone. As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.
Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
There are powers inside of you, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
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.
It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.
The golden rule for every business man is this: ''Put yourself in your customer's place.''.
It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
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.
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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