We lend power to the things we fear!
ORISON SWETT MARDENEvery great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.
More Orison Swett Marden Quotes
-
-
Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN -
To think you can creates the force that can.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN -
The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN -
Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN -
How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?
ORISON SWETT MARDEN -
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN -
Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN -
Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN -
What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN -
This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?
ORISON SWETT MARDEN -
The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN -
We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN -
Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN -
Real 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 -
We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN -
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN -
Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN -
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN -
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN -
Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life’s machinery.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN -
Wanted, a man who will not lose his individuality in a crowd, a man who has the courage of his convictions, who is not afraid to say “No,” though all the world say “Yes.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN -
Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN -
It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN -
The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN -
There is no medicine like hope.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN -
The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN