Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
ORISON SWETT MARDENOur thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.
ORISON SWETT MARDENThere can be no life which does not contain something to be grateful for, and the habit of gratitude is one of the most powerful assets of success and happiness which can be named.
ORISON SWETT MARDENIt 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 MARDENOpportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in.
ORISON SWETT MARDENHe can who thinks he can, and he can’t who thinks he can’t.
ORISON SWETT MARDENPeople do not realise the immense value of utilising spare minutes.
ORISON SWETT MARDENObstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
ORISON SWETT MARDENWhen a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.
ORISON SWETT MARDENThe successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
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 MARDENA good system shortens the road to the goal.
ORISON SWETT MARDENPessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
ORISON SWETT MARDENThe 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 MARDENThere is no medicine like hope.
ORISON SWETT MARDENObstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
ORISON SWETT MARDENWhat 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