„Fijarnos limitaciones a nosotros mismos es uno de los pecados capitales de la humanidad.“

—  Orison Swett Marden

PROSPERIDAD: COMO ATRAERLA

„Un guijarro en el lecho de un pobre arroyuelo puede mudar el curso de un río.“

—  Orison Swett Marden

„Vale más un céntimo bien empleado que un céntimo ahorrado.“

—  Orison Swett Marden

„La verdadera ciencia está muy por encima de los apasionamientos políticos, de las diferencias de raza e idioma y de los sectarismos religiosos.“

—  Orison Swett Marden

„La economía es una siembra.“

—  Orison Swett Marden

„La economía consiste en saber gastar y el ahorro en saber guardar.“

—  Orison Swett Marden

«La economía es la siembra, y el ahorro, la cosecha»
Fuente: [Señor] (1997), p. 166.
Fuente: [Señor] (1997), p. 166.

„La suerte no es más que la habilidad de aprovechar las ocasiones favorables.“

—  Orison Swett Marden

Fuente: [Señor] (1997), p. 235.

„No se sale adelante celebrando éxitos sino superando fracasos.“

—  Orison Swett Marden

Fuente: [Señor] (1997), p. 238.

„La sonrisa es una verdadera fuerza vital, la única capaz de mover lo inconmovible.“

—  Orison Swett Marden

„What we do when defeat stares us in the face is the real touchstone of character. But the very fact that success has time and again proved the means of awakening people to the knowledge of greater ability than they ever before dreamed they possessed, ought to hearten and encourage us to keep on no matter how often we fail. If we brace ourselves and continue to push forward we will ultimately win out.“

—  Orison Swett Marden

Everybody Ahead (or, Getting the Most Out of Life) (1916).

„The great trouble with all of us who are struggling with unhappy or unfortunate conditions is that we have separated ourselves in some way from the great magnetic center of creation. We are not thinking right, and so we are not attracting the right things. “Think the things you want.” The profoundest philosophy is locked up in these few words. Think of them clearly, persistently, concentrating upon them with all the force and might of your mind, and struggle toward them with all your energy. This is the way to make yourself a magnet for the things you want. But the moment you begin to doubt, to worry, to fear, you demagnetize yourself, and the things you desire flee from you. You drive them away by your mental attitude. They cannot come near you while you are deliberately separating yourself from them. You are going in one direction, and the things you want are going in the opposite direction.“

—  Orison Swett Marden

How to Get What You Want (1917).

„Just because you are struggling on a farm or in a factory, doing something against which your whole nature rebels, because there is no one to help you support your aged parents or an invalid brother or sister, do not conclude that your vision must perish. Keep pushing on as best you can, and affirming your divine power to attain your desire. Hundreds and thousands of poor boys and girls with poorer opportunities than yours have done immortal deeds because they had faith in their ideal and in their power to attain it.“

—  Orison Swett Marden

How to Get What You Want (1917).

„The most of us make our backs ache carrying useless, foolish burdens. We carry luggage and rubbish that are of no earthly use, but which sap our strength and keep us jaded and tired to no purpose. If we could only learn to hold on to the things worthwhile, and drop the rubbish, — let go the useless, the foolish, the silly, the hamperers, the things that hinder, — we should not only make progress but we should keep happy and harmonious.“

—  Orison Swett Marden

How to Get What You Want (1917).

„If you have had an unfortunate experience, forget it. If you have made a failure in speech, your song, your book, your article, if you have been placed in an embarrassing position, if you have fallen and hurt yourself by a false step, if you have been slandered and abused, do not dwell upon it. There is not a single redeeming feature in these memories, and the presence of their ghosts will rob you of many a happy hour. There is nothing in it. Drop them. Forget them. Wipe them out of your mind forever. If you have been indiscreet, imprudent, if you have been talked about, if your reputation has been injured so that you fear you can never outgrow it or redeem it, do not drag the hideous shadows, the rattling skeletons about with you, Rub them off from the shite of memory. Wipe them out. Forget them. Start with a clean slate and spend all your energies in keeping it clean for the future.“

—  Orison Swett Marden

Masterful Personality (1923).

„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.“

—  Orison Swett Marden

„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.“

—  Orison Swett Marden

„All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.“

—  Orison Swett Marden

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

—  Orison Swett Marden

„We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.“

—  Orison Swett Marden