Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

— Orison Swett Marden

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

— Orison Swett Marden

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

— Orison Swett Marden

A will finds a way.

— Orison Swett Marden

Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.

— Orison Swett Marden

Books make it possible for every person born into the world to begin where the previous generation left off.

— Orison Swett Marden

Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.

— Orison Swett Marden

Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.

— Orison Swett Marden

Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.

— Orison Swett Marden

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.

— Orison Swett Marden