Success Quotes

“And above all, study, study, study ! All the genius in the world will not help you along with any art unless you become a hard student. It”
― Orison Swett Marden, SUCCESS. A book of ideas, helps and examples for all desiring to make the most of life

“If a man is not superior to his education, is not larger than his crutches or his helps, if he is not greater than the means of his culture, which are but the sign-boards pointing the way to success, he will never reach greatness. Not”
― Orison Swett Marden, SUCCESS. A book of ideas, helps and examples for all desiring to make the most of life

“I've never found any elevators in life; I've had to climb to every place worth reaching. And now I think it over, I wish it so with everybody, for then no one would rise any higher than he deserves to go. I”
― Orison Swett Marden, SUCCESS. A book of ideas, helps and examples for all desiring to make the most of life

“Habit works powerfully for or against us. It is a good servant, but a tyrannical master. If”
― Orison Swett Marden, SUCCESS. A book of ideas, helps and examples for all desiring to make the most of life

“What is enthusiasm but a passionate belief in what seems to be a high and holy aim, — an unselfish devotion to some noble cause, — a consecration of heart and mind and soul to the attainment of a great object? What is it but an earnest effort to attain the heights of spiritual and intellectual endeavor? What is it but the life, the force, the power, which makes individuals or nations capable of enduring much and waiting long, in the conviction that ultimately the thing they have at heart will be accomplished?”
― Orison Swett Marden, SUCCESS. A book of ideas, helps and examples for all desiring to make the most of life

“The punishment for bad manners is as certain as the punishment for crime. By common consent, society banishes the bad-mannered.”
― Orison Swett Marden, SUCCESS. A book of ideas, helps and examples for all desiring to make the most of life

“The greatest thing a man can possibly 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. It”
― Orison Swett Marden, SUCCESS. A book of ideas, helps and examples for all desiring to make the most of life

“Columbus was carried back to Spain in chains, and a pickle dealer of Seville, who never rose above the position of mate of a schooner, gave his name to the world Columbus had discovered.”
― Orison Swett Marden, SUCCESS. A book of ideas, helps and examples for all desiring to make the most of life

“It is a law of nature," said Herodotus, “that faint-hearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries; for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.”
― Orison Swett Marden, SUCCESS. A book of ideas, helps and examples for all desiring to make the most of life

“to inspire his men, wont about among the plague-stricken soldiers, touching their wounds with his bare hands. He said that the man who had no fear would never be stricken with the plague. he believed that the mind is master of the body. If there was over a believer in the almost omnipotent power of the mind and of the will, it was Napoleon.”
― Orison Swett Marden, SUCCESS. A book of ideas, helps and examples for all desiring to make the most of life

“No man can be great who allows himself to get angry.”
― Orison Swett Marden, SUCCESS. A book of ideas, helps and examples for all desiring to make the most of life

“What would you do, if you were besieged in a place entirely destitute of provisions?" "As long as there was anything to eat in the enemy's camp," answered Napoleon, “I should not be at all concerned." A will finds a way.”
― Orison Swett Marden, SUCCESS. A book of ideas, helps and examples for all desiring to make the most of life

“Persevering mediocrity is much more respectable, and unspeakably more useful, than talented inconstancy. — J. Hamilton.”
― Orison Swett Marden, SUCCESS. A book of ideas, helps and examples for all desiring to make the most of life

“We can have little faith in the youth who is always crying out against his condition, and telling an incredulous world what great things he could do if his lot were different.”
― Orison Swett Marden, SUCCESS. A book of ideas, helps and examples for all desiring to make the most of life

“success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed : pay the price and it is yours.”
― Orison Swett Marden, SUCCESS. A book of ideas, helps and examples for all desiring to make the most of life

“The highest reputation in every department of human exertion is reserved for minds of one faculty, where no rival powers divide the empire of the soul, and where there is no variety of pursuits to distract and perplex its energies.”
― Orison Swett Marden, SUCCESS. A book of ideas, helps and examples for all desiring to make the most of life

“Luck is waiting for something to turn up; labor, with keen eye and strong will, will turn something up. Luck lies in bed and wishes the postman would bring him news of a legacy; labor turns out at six o'clock, and, with busy pen or ringing hammer, lays a foundation for a competence. Luck whines; labor whistles. Luck relies on charms; labor depends on character. Luck slips down to indigence; labor strides upward to independence.”
― Orison Swett Marden, SUCCESS. A book of ideas, helps and examples for all desiring to make the most of life

“Fortune always smiles on those who roll up their sleeves and put their shoulders to the wheel.”
― Orison Swett Marden, SUCCESS. A book of ideas, helps and examples for all desiring to make the most of life

“Build slow and sure; 'tis for life, young man. In the elder days of art, Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the gods see everywhere. — Longfellow.”
― Orison Swett Marden, SUCCESS. A book of ideas, helps and examples for all desiring to make the most of life

“Dig, dig the foundation deep, young man. Plant firmly the outer wall; Let the props be strong and the roof be high." " Build it well, whatever you do; Build it straight and strong and true; Build it clean and high and broad; Build it for the eye of God.”
― Orison Swett Marden, SUCCESS. A book of ideas, helps and examples for all desiring to make the most of life

“An old sculptor said of his carvings, whose backs were to be out of all possible inspection, “But the gods will see." Every”
― Orison Swett Marden, SUCCESS. A book of ideas, helps and examples for all desiring to make the most of life

“It is difficult to estimate the influence upon a life of the early formed habit of doing everything to a finish, not leaving it half done, or pretty nearly done, but completely done. Nature completes every little leaf, even every little rib, its edges and stera, as exactly and perfectly as though it were the only leaf to be made that year. Even the flower that blooms in the mountain dell, where no human eye will ever behold it, is made with the same perfection and exactness of form and outline, with the same delicate shade of color, with the same completeness of beauty, as though it were intended for royalty in the queen's garden. “Perfection to the finish," is”
― Orison Swett Marden, SUCCESS. A book of ideas, helps and examples for all desiring to make the most of life

“Southern planters visiting Newport before the Civil War would frequently pass in their drives an odd-looking man building a stone wall by the roadside. Aside from his strange costume, there was something which attracted attention in the earnest but rapid examination which he gave to each stone before laying it upon the wall. "Are you hunting for possible gold nuggets in that rock?" asked an amused planter one day, “or what do you expect to find?" "I am looking for its individuality," replied the laborer; "every stone, like every human being, has certain peculiarities which adapt it thoroughly for certain purposes, but less perfectly for others. He who would build a wall as it should be, must get acquainted with every stone he handles, and place it just where it was intended to go.”
― Orison Swett Marden, SUCCESS. A book of ideas, helps and examples for all desiring to make the most of life

“In a word trust that man in nothing. Who has not a conscience in everything. — Laurence Sterne”
― Orison Swett Marden, SUCCESS. A book of ideas, helps and examples for all desiring to make the most of life

“Aim at perfection in everything?, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. — Chesterfield.”
― Orison Swett Marden, SUCCESS. A book of ideas, helps and examples for all desiring to make the most of life

“poverty is the open-mouthed hell which yawns beneath civilization," we”
― Orison Swett Marden, SUCCESS. A book of ideas, helps and examples for all desiring to make the most of life