Orison Swett Marden
Orison Swett Marden
Dr. Orison Swett Mardenwas an American inspirational author who wrote about achieving success in life and founded SUCCESS magazine in 1897. His writings discuss common-sense principles and virtues that make for a well-rounded, successful life. Many of his ideas are based on New Thought philosophy...
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CountryUnited States of America
real imagination limits
Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
thinking effort force
To think you can creates the force that can.
strength strong opportunity
Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
challenges looks obstacles
Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.
determination ambition winning
You must bring every particle of your energy, unanswerable resolution, your best efforts, your persistent industry to your task or the best will not come out of you. You must back up your ambition by your whole nature, by unbounded enthusiasm and a determination to win which knows no failure.
inspirational uplifting ambition
Our 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.
done pieces able
When you finish a thing you ought to be able to say to yourself: 'There, I am willing to stand for that piece of work. It is not pretty well done; it is done as well as I can do it; done to a complete finish. I will stand for that. I am willing to be judged by it.'
success winning mind
We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.
greatness men tests
Anybody can work when everything goes smoothly, when there is nothing to trouble him; but a man must be made of the right kind of stuff who can rise above the things which harass and handicap the weak, and do his work in spite of them. Indeed, this is the test of greatness.
cutting hands life-is
Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us.
determination failure men
Most men fail, not through lack of education, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.
motivational success meaningful
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.
motivation destiny champion
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
inspirational add invisible
The 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.