Orison Swett Marden Quotes About Defeat

Quotes about: Defeat

• 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.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Success, Failure, Men

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

• A great many people never really discover themselves until ruin stares them in the face. They do not seem to know how to bring out their reserves until they are overtaken by an overwhelming disaster, or until the sight of their blighted prospects and of the wreck of their homes and happiness stirs them to the very center of their beings.... There is something in defeat which puts new determination into a man of mettle.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Determination, Home, Men

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

• Defeats and failures are great developers of character. They have made the giants of our race by giving Titanic muscles, brawny sinews, and far-reaching intellects.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Failure, Character, Race

  Orison Swett Marden (2006). “Rising in the World, Or Architects of Fate”, p.428, Cosimo, Inc.

• What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Block, Soul, Victory

  Orison Swett Marden (1997). “Exceptional Employee”, p.10

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