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Words From the Founder of Success Magazine: Orison Swett Marden Quotes

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Orison Swett Marden, had a streak of art and commerce. He was an author, philosopher and businessman par excellence. Marden founded the Success Magazine and was also actively involved in the New Thought Movement, which was initiated by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Orison Swett Marden quotes enlighten you about little known facets of life and philosophy.

Energy
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.

Sports
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.

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

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

Excellence
It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.

Habits
Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.

Opportunities
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Seeing
The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer's place.

Success
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.

Leadership
The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

Expectation
We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.

Dreams
We lift ourselves by our thought. We climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always everywhere.

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