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.Collection: Alone
There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.Collection: Courage
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.Collection: Success
No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.Collection: Alone
Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.Collection: Sympathy
Regard every suggestion that your life may be a failure, that you are not made like those who succeed, and that success is not for you, as a traitor, and expel it from your mind as you would a thief from your house.Collection: Failure
The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.Collection: Success
There 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.Collection: Positive
There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.Collection: Positive
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.Collection: Imagination
We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.Collection: Motivational
When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.Collection: Relationship
Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.Collection: Imagination
The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.Collection: Money
A will finds a way.Collection: Motivational
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.Collection: Nature
It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.Collection: Wisdom
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.Collection: Success
It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.Collection: Attitude
If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.Collection: Society
Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.Collection: Beauty
The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'Collection: Business
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.Collection: Hope
Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.Collection: Success
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.Collection: Nature
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.Collection: Respect
Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.Collection: Fear
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.Collection: Men
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.Collection: Success
Every man ultimately falls into the company with which he affiliates. And he is the strongest who draws men to himself, who creates the company; and this is through having a positive quality - courage and physical prowess.Collection: Positive
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.Collection: Wisdom
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.Collection: Hope
Absorb knowledge from every possible source and opportunity. Power gravitates to the man who knows how and why.Collection: Opportunity
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.Collection: Inspirational
Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.Collection: Thinking
If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.Collection: Vision
Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.Collection: Cute
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.Collection: Motivation
We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.Collection: Success
Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning inCollection: Opportunity
Conquer yourself and you can conquer everything else.Collection: Conquer
A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to the sea, but waits for the sea to come to him. If it does not come, he remains where he is and dies, although the slightest effort would enable him to reach the waves, which are perhaps within a yard of him. The world is full of human lobsters; people stranded on the rocks of indecision and procrastination, who, instead of putting forth their own energies, are waiting for some grand billow of good fortune to set them afloat.Collection: Procrastination
There 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.Collection: Gratitude
Obstacles 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.Collection: Inspirational
The 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.Collection: Men
But how shall I get ideas? ''Keep your wits open! Observe! Observe! Study! Study! But above all, Think! Think! And when a noble image is indelibly impressed upon the mind - Act!Collection: Thinking
We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.Collection: Self Esteem
Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.Collection: Life
Find 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.Collection: Self
We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.Collection: Vision