Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
ORISON SWETT MARDENBelieve with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.
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 MARDENThis is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?
ORISON SWETT MARDENThere are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.
ORISON SWETT MARDENMake it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark.
ORISON SWETT MARDENThe secret of happiness is in a cheerful, contented mind. He is poor who is dissatisfied; he is rich who is contented with what he has, and can enjoy what others own.
ORISON SWETT MARDENThe 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 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 MARDENYou 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 MARDENWe cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.
ORISON SWETT MARDENWeak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
ORISON SWETT MARDENBegin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.
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 MARDENThe best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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 MARDENThe man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into it, has not learned the first principles of success or happiness.
ORISON SWETT MARDEN