Orison Swett Marden
22 quotations
It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
Doing common things uncommonly well.
Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.
Superiority -- doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.
It is like the seed put in the soil -- the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.
The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.
Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
A good system shortens the road to the goal.
Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.
We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
The world is sad enough without your woe.
Be larger than your task.