Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
ORISON SWETT MARDENWeak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
ORISON SWETT MARDENJoyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
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 MARDENThere is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
ORISON SWETT MARDENLearn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
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 MARDENThis is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?
ORISON SWETT MARDENAbsorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.
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 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 MARDENA good system shortens the road to the goal.
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 MARDENThe quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
ORISON SWETT MARDENWork, love and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being.
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 MARDENYour expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN