What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.
ORISON SWETT MARDENWhat are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.
ORISON SWETT MARDENThis is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?
ORISON SWETT MARDENFind your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made.
ORISON SWETT MARDENNo one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
ORISON SWETT MARDENWe must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
ORISON SWETT MARDENThere is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
ORISON SWETT MARDENJoyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
ORISON SWETT MARDENPut the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.
ORISON SWETT MARDENHow can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
ORISON SWETT MARDENIf you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
ORISON SWETT MARDENConquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.
ORISON SWETT MARDENBut how shall I get ideas? ”Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind – Act!
ORISON SWETT MARDENAll who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
ORISON SWETT MARDENThe successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
ORISON SWETT MARDENThe best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
ORISON SWETT MARDENReal happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. It is derived from the simplest, the quietest, the most unpretentious things in the world.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN