4 quotations linked to The Victorious Attitude by or associated with Orison Swett Marden, with source notes, explanations and related topics.
Self-faith, confidence, resilience, hope, purpose, persistence and a strongly spiritual account of personal possibility.
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“Let no one shake your faith in yourself.”
The brief command protects an internal source of confidence from being surrendered automatically to criticism or discouragement from outside.
Source note: The Victorious Attitude; the sentence is followed by explicitly religious language about faith, so the source page keeps that spiritual context visible.
“Remember it is not other people's faith in you but your faith in yourself that counts most.”
Other people’s confidence is useful but not decisive; Marden emphasizes the belief that must remain available when approval, reassurance, or encouragement from others is absent.
Source note: The Victorious Attitude, chapter on faith; Marden explicitly distinguishes other people’s good opinion from the faith in oneself he calls imperative.
“Show the world that you respect yourself, that you believe in yourself, and that, no matter how hard the way, you are marching on to victory.”
Marden treats visible self-respect as a refusal to let hardship define identity, encouraging a posture of agency even when material circumstances are difficult.
Source note: The Victorious Attitude, opening chapter; the rhetoric is deliberately motivational and reflects early twentieth-century success literature rather than an empirical psychological claim.
“A man begins to deteriorate, to go toward failure, not when he loses all of his material possessions, not when he fails in his undertakings, but when he loses faith in himself, in his ability to make his dreams come true.”
Material loss and failed attempts are separated from the deeper danger of abandoning personal agency; the sentence treats continued self-belief as a resource for beginning again.
Source note: The Victorious Attitude; this sentence appears in Marden’s sustained argument that loss of self-faith is more damaging than the loss of possessions or an individual undertaking.