Orison Swett
Orison Swett
heart faces joyfulness
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young.
beautiful spiritual art
Every thought which enters the mind, every word we utter, every deed we perform, makes its impression upon the inmost fiber of our being and the result of these impressions is our character. The study of books, of music, or of the fine arts is not essential to a lofty character. It rests with the worker whether a rude piece of marble shall be squared into a horse-block or carved into an Apollo, a Psyche, or a Venus di Milo. It is yours, if you choose, to develop a spiritual form more beautiful than any of these, instinct with immortal life, refulgent with all the glory of character.
development environment should
No one should voluntarily remain in an environment which prevents his development.
opportunity gone careless
Opportunity is coy, is swift, is gone, before the slow, the unobservant, the indolent, or the careless can seize her.
book character doe
The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.
inspirational believe journey
We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
success failure men
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
inspirational life long
We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.
failure mean men
You 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.
thinking law long
There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can't.
power men he-man
Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
sleep opportunity men
Society is to the individual what the sun and showers are to the seed. It develops him, expands him, unfolds him, calls him out of himself. Other men are his opportunity. Each one is a match which ignites some new tinder in him unignitible by any previous match. Without these the sparks of individuality would sleep in him forever.
hope medicine
There is no medicine like hope ...
time duration waste
We cannot separate our lives from time. Why is it that we are so extravagant, so thoughtless, in our waste of time, especially in youth, when we cling so tenaciously to life? You cannot separate a wasted hour from the same duration of your life. If you waste your time, you must waste your life. If you improve your time, you cannot help improving your life.