(111 quotes found)
“You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.”
Orison Swett Marden
“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow”
“No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.”
“Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.”
“Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage...true success follows every right step.”
“This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?”
“But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!”
“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 hand one of the strongest elements of success.”
“No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more - to be happy and successful - than much money.”
“Existence without an aim, without a worthy purpose, is worse than wasted”
