Marden, Orison Swett

US editor and motivational author

father of Orison Swett Marden (1906-1975)

• "Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us."
• "When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say amen to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - this is happiness, this is success."
• "Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory."
• "Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them."
• "Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire."