Dr. Orison Swett Marden
“He Can Who Thinks He Can!”

Dr. Marden is considered to be the true founder of the American success movement.

Pushing To The Front was Marden’s first and most popular book. However, the key messages found in other highly praised works such as Ambition, Character, Hour of Opportunity, Diligence - Do It To A Finish and Persistence - An Iron Will are also extremely powerful and inspiring to the reader.

It can be successfully argued that no one has better known the truth of his words than the man or woman who wrote them. Marden experienced many tragedies in his early life.

He was orphaned at the age of seven; placed in multiple foster homes throughout his childhood where he was repeatedly mistreated and used solely as hired help.

Yet, despite his many challenges Marden grew determined to do whatever was necessary in order to gain a quality education. He was determined to someday become the true master of his own destiny.

Orison Swett Marden’s life motto became, “No Surrender! I will find a way, or make one.”

He lived his life making no excuses. Marden was disciplined in his studies, committed to his work and he made a special point of sharing his rewards and encouraging others to press onward and upward – despite any obstacles.

"The one who loses heart when he finds the way to his goal unexpectedly blocked; who waits for smooth conditions and favorable circumstances, will not go far in this world. Conditions will never be such that success in any field will be a walk-over. It is he who, at the very start, makes up his mind to win in spite of any adverse conditions – the man who, instead of surrendering to obstacles, rides over them or through them – it is he that succeeds in life!"
- Orison Swett Marden

Orison Swett Marden was a man who was highly focused on the art of living a happy and fulfilled life. He encouraged others to take full responsibility for their own happiness, and often made the point that no one else outside of ones self can make a person happy.

Marden is quoted as saying, “If we are ever going to be happy, it will be because we create happiness out of our present environment, with all of its trials, burdens and disheartening conditions. He who does not learn to create his happiness as he goes along each day, regardless of the daily annoyances and disappointments – has missed out on the one great secret in life.”

The author maintains, in the same spirit of our greatest philosophers of all the ages, that happiness is a condition of the mind, not of ones environment, and is within the reach of every normal human being.

Marden was a profound believer in the ultimate triumph of Truth and Justice and in the higher destiny of the human race. He relentlessly stressed the greatness of men and women.

He rightly believed that because of man’s oneness with God, our possibilities are truly limitless.

Orison Swett Marden possessed an unbreakable faith in the Divine. He encouraged millions to partner with their Creator. “Working in partnership with God, there is nothing too great for you to dream or to dare.”

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