Orison Swett Marden Quotes

Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.

Success is the doing, not the getting - in the trying, not the triumph.

The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.

The triumph can't be had without the struggle.

I was determined that if I failed it wouldn't be due to lack of effort.

Nothing has been easy for me... I've always had to work for everything I've gotten and everything I've accomplished.

Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

Hard work always wins in the end.

The person who has the will to undergo all labor may win any goal.

No man fails who does his best.

On occasion we need to make a second effort - and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.

I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.

Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

I had to work at everything.

I try to do my best.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.

Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.