Orison Swett
Orison Swett
money spring insignificant-things
One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring.
successful blow men
The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
men excellence common
Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.
inspirational life fun
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
character world
Character: the grandest thing in the world.
inspirational joy paradise
Paradise is here or nowhere: you must take your joy with you or you will never find it.
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.