Orison S. Marden quotes

The moment a man ceases to progress, to grow higher, wider and deeper, then his life becomes stagnant.
-- Orison S. Marden

#Motivational #Men #Progress

A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
-- Orison S. Marden

#Friendship #Laughing #Good Laugh

Work kills no one, but worry has killed multitudes… Worry not only saps vitality and wastes energy, but it also seriously affects the quality of one's work. It cuts down ability. A man cannot get the highest quality of efficiency into his work when his mind is troubled. The mental faculties must have perfect freedom before they will give out their best. A troubled brain cannot think clearly, vigorously, and logically.
-- Orison S. Marden

#Cutting #Men #Thinking

The size and quality of your achievement will depend largely upon what sort of image you have of yourself at your best.
-- Orison S. Marden

#Achievement #Quality #Size

The strong man, the positive, decisive man who has a program and is determined to carry it out, cuts his way to his goal regardless of difficulties. It is the discouraged man who turns aside and takes a crooked path.
-- Orison S. Marden

#Strong #Cutting #Men

The ability to talk well is to a man what cutting and polishing are to the rough diamond. The grinding does not add anything to the diamond. It merely reveals its wealth.
-- Orison S. Marden

#Cutting #Men #Add

Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it.  They think it comes from doing something on a big scale, from a big fortune, or from some great achievement, when, in fact, it is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.
-- Orison S. Marden

#Real #Simple #Thinking

It is the direct man who strikes sledgehammer blows, who penetrates the very marrow of a subject at every stroke and gets the meat out of a proposition, who does things.
-- Orison S. Marden

#Blow #Men #Doe

It is a psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind; that is, we must register a vow with ourselves, we must make our resolution with vigor, with faith that we can do the thing we want to do; we must register our conviction with such intensity that the great creative forces within us will tend to realize them. Our impressions will become expressions just in proportion to the vigor with which we register our vows to accomplish our ambitions, to make our visions realities.
-- Orison S. Marden

#Ambition #Reality #Expression

Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.

Kids grow up awfully fast these days,"she said. "You should try to have a good relationship with your kids, no matter what they do.

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.

Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.

Experience shows that what great role pratice and experience play in education; pratice, the prolonged exercice lead to habit: exemple suggests imitation. Habit can become a second nature, but, wrongly directed (or guided), it may also heighten (or intensify) unfortunate tendencies and be an obstacle to progress.

Im not satisfied with the progress of the work, but I am happy that the talks are going on. It might have a negative effect if the United States joins.