If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
ORISON SWETT MARDENIf you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
ORISON SWETT MARDENWe lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.
ORISON SWETT MARDENWe cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
ORISON SWETT MARDENOur 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 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 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 MARDENWe lend power to the things we fear!
ORISON SWETT MARDENWeak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
ORISON SWETT MARDENJust make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality… that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence.
ORISON SWETT MARDENMost of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.
ORISON SWETT MARDENThe best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
ORISON SWETT MARDENAll men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
ORISON SWETT MARDENThere is no medicine like hope.
ORISON SWETT MARDENUnless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
ORISON SWETT MARDENMost men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.
ORISON SWETT MARDENOpportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN