You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
Author
Orison Swett Marden
65 quotations
About Orison Swett Marden
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 discussed principles and virtues which Marden argued would make for a successful life through adoption of the New Thought philosophy.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Orison Swett MardenThe quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
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 for…
When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We …
Advertisement
Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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.
To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his han…
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.
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed pay the price and it is yours.
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.
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.
Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
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 for…
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.