Pushing to the Front or Success Under Difficulties Quotes

“Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say "No," though all the world say "Yes.”
― Orison Swett Marden, Pushing to the Front

“You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.”
― Orison Swett Marden, Pushing to the Front

“Every discovery in science and art, is due to the trained power of seeing things ... Keep your eyes open, your ears open ... Trace difficulties.”
― Orison Swett Marden, Pushing to the Front

“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.”
― Orison Swett Marden, Pushing to the Front

“The educated man ought to be able to do something better, something higher than merely to put money in his purse. Money-making can not compare with man-making.”
― Orison Swett Marden, Pushing to the Front

“Open eyes will discover opportunities everywhere; open ears will never fail to detect the cries of those who are perishing for assistance; open hearts will never want for worthy objects upon which to bestow their gifts; open hands will never lack for noble work to do.”
― Orison Swett Marden, Pushing to the Front

“I never knew a man to be successful who was always talking about business being bad. The habit of looking down, talking down, is fatal to advancement.”
― Orison Swett Marden, Pushing to the Front

“Quit fearing things that may never happen, just as you would quit any bad practise which has caused you suffering. Fill your mind with courage, hope, and confidence.”
― Orison Swett Marden, Pushing to the Front

“You, young man, make up your mind at the very outset of your career that whatever comes to you in life, that whether you succeed or fail, whether you have this or that, there is one thing you will have, and that is a happy, contented mind, that you will extract your happiness as you go along.”
― Orison Swett Marden, Pushing to the Front

“It is only the generous giver who gets much.”
― Orison Swett Marden, Pushing to the Front

“Laziness begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains.”
― Orison Swett Marden, Pushing to the Front

“The college diploma has no more power to hold the knowledge you have gained in college than a piece of tissue paper over a gas jet can hold the gas in the pipe.”
― Orison Swett Marden, Pushing to the Front

“Don't try to justify yourself on the ground that somebody must do this kind of work. Let "somebody," not yourself, take the responsibility ... Many a man has dwarfed his manhood, cramped his intellect, crushed his aspiration, blunted his finer sensibilities, in some mean, narrow occupation because there was money in it.”
― Orison Swett Marden, Pushing to the Front

“You cannot look into a cradle and read the secret message traced by a divine hand and wrapped up in that bit of clay, and more than you can see the North Star in the magnetic needle. God has loaded the needle of that young life so it will point to the star which presides over poetry, art, law, medicine, or whatever your own pet calling is, until you have wasted years precious life, yet, when once free, the needle flies back to its own star.”
― Orison Swett Marden, Pushing to the Front

“Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.”
― Orison Swett Marden, Pushing to the Front

“it not strange that they should form this habit of anticipating evils that will probably never come, when they know that anxiety and fretting will not only rob them of peace of mind and strength and ability to do their work, but also of precious years of life?”
― Orison Swett Marden, Pushing to the Front

“A man can have no greater delusion than that he can spend the best years of his life coining all of his energies into dollars, neglecting his home, sacrificing friendships, self-improvement, and everything else that is really worth while, for money, and yet find happiness at the end!”
― Orison Swett Marden, Pushing to the Front

“There is no satisfaction like that which comes from the steady, persistent, honest, conscientious pursuit of a noble aim.”
― Orison Swett Marden, Pushing to the Front

“Purity is power because it means integrity of thought, integrity of conduct. It means wholeness.”
― Orison Swett Marden, Pushing to the Front

“Two sailors, who had been drinking, took a boat off to their ship. They rowed but made no progress; and presently each began to accuse the other of not working hard enough. Lustily they plied the oars, but after another hour's work still found themselves no farther advanced. By this time they had become tolerably sober; and one of them, looking over the side, said to the other, "Why, Tom, we haven't pulled the anchor up yet." And thus it is with those who are anchored to something of which they are not conscious, perhaps, but which impedes their efforts, even though they do their very best.”
― Orison Swett Marden, Pushing to the Front

“The true way to conquer circumstances is to be a greater circumstance yourself.”
― Orison Swett Marden, Pushing to the Front

“What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.”
― Orison Swett Marden, Pushing to the Front

“A man who might have been symmetrical, well-rounded, had he availed himself of every opportunity of touching life along all sides, remains a pygmy in everything except his own little specialty, because he did not cultivate his social side. It”
― Orison Swett Marden, Pushing to the Front

“Magnetic personality is intangible. This mysterious something, which we sometimes call individuality, is often more powerful than the ability which can be measured, or the qualities that can be rated. Many”
― Orison Swett Marden, Pushing to the Front

“Even a momentary contact with a character of this kind seems to double our mental and soul powers, as two great dynamos double the current which passes over the wire, and we are loath to leave the magical presence lest we lose our new-born power. On”
― Orison Swett Marden, Pushing to the Front

“the flashlight of a potent personality of this kind has opened a rift in our lives and revealed to us hidden capabilities.”
― Orison Swett Marden, Pushing to the Front

“Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters, and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations. We”
― Orison Swett Marden, Pushing to the Front

“Weak men wait for opportunities, strong men make them.”
― Orison Swett Marden, Pushing to the Front: With linked Table of Contents

“Time is money. We should not be stingy or mean with it, but we should not throw away an hour any more than we would throw away a dollar-bill. Waste of time means waste of energy, waste of vitality, waste of character in dissipation. It means the waste of opportunities which will never come back. Beware how you kill time, for all your future lives in it.”
― Orison Swett Marden, Pushing to the Front