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Orison Swett Marden Biography

Dr. Orison Swett Marden (1848–1924) was an American inspirational author who wrote about achieving success in life and founded SUCCESS magazine in 1897. 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.

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Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.

Owes, Stuff, Time, World, Youth

Society is to the individual what the sun and showers are to the seed. It develops him, expands him, unfolds him, calls him out of himself. Other men are his opportunity. Each one is a match which ignites some new tinder in him unignitible by any previous match. Without these the sparks of individuality would sleep in him forever.

Men, Opportunity, Previous, Sleep, Sun

When you finish a thing you ought to be able to say to yourself: 'There, I am willing to stand for that piece of work. It is not pretty well done; it is done as well as I can do it; done to a complete finish. I will stand for that. I am willing to be judged by it. '

Able, Done, Pieces, Pretty, Thing

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young.

Faces, Heart, Joyfulness, Keeps, Young

The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities. She will strip us of wealth, humble our pride, humiliate our ambition, let us down from the ladder of fame, will discipline us in a thousand ways, if she can develop a little character. Everything must give way to that. Wealth is nothing, position is nothing, fame is nothing, manhood is everything.

Angel, Character, Fame, Give, Nature, Possibilities

Dreams that are realized become an inspiration for new endeavor. It is in the power to make the dream good that we find the hope of this world.

Become, Dream, Good, Inspiration, World

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

Life, Simple, Simplicity, Things, Waste

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.

Inspirational, Make, Motivational, Responsibility, Thing, World

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.

Acceptance, Adversity, Half, Including, Success, Take

We lift ourselves by our thought.

Lift, Lifts, Our Thoughts, Thought

No man fails who does his best.

Doe, Fails, Man, Men, Wrestling

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

Differences, Excellence, Infinite, Mediocrity, Superiority

The secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and can enjoy what others own.

Contented, Happiness, Mind, Rich, Secret

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

Get Well Soon, Hope, Like, Powerful

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

Found, Like, Men, Strong, Successful, Weak

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

Everybody, Friendship, Happiness, Heart, Joyfulness, Keeps

Without continuous effort there cannot be continuous achievement.

Achievement, Continuous, Continuous Effort, Effort

There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

Excellence, Hands, Power, Right, Trust

A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.

Compel, Energy, Men, Strong, Successful, Things

Every thought which enters the mind, every word we utter, every deed we perform, makes its impression upon the inmost fiber of our being and the result of these impressions is our character. The study of books, of music, or of the fine arts is not essential to a lofty character. It rests with the worker whether a rude piece of marble shall be squared into a horse-block or carved into an Apollo, a Psyche, or a Venus di Milo. It is yours, if you choose, to develop a spiritual form more beautiful than any of these, instinct with immortal life, refulgent with all the glory of character.

Beautiful, Choose, Horse, Mind, Spiritual, Study

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