The greatest thing a man can do in this world, is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

— Orison Swett Marden

The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.

— Orison Swett Marden

The great trouble with all of us who are struggling with unhappy or unfortunate conditions is that we have separated ourselves in some way from the great magnetic center of creation. We are not thinking right, and so we are not attracting the right things. “Think the things you want.” The profoundest philosophy is locked up in these few words. Think of them clearly, persistently, concentrating upon them with all the force and might of your mind, and struggle toward them with all your energy. This is the way to make yourself a magnet for the things you want. But the moment you begin to doubt, to worry, to fear, you demagnetize yourself, and the things you desire flee from you. You drive them away by your mental attitude. They cannot come near you while you are deliberately separating yourself from them. You are going in one direction, and the things you want are going in the opposite direction.

— Orison Swett Marden

The hopeful man sees success where others see failure sunshine where others see shadows and storm.

— Orison Swett Marden

The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.

— Orison Swett Marden

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

— Orison Swett Marden

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

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

— Orison Swett Marden

There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit. When the soul throws its windows wide open, letting in the sunshine, and presenting to all who see it the evidence of its gladness, it is not only happy, but it has an unspeakable power of doing good.

— Orison Swett Marden

There is no medicine like hope no incentive so great and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

— Orison Swett Marden