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“Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.”
-- Orison Swett Marden
#Inspirational #Strength #Strong
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“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.”
-- Orison Swett Marden
#Hope #Powerful #Get Well Soon
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“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.”
-- Orison Swett Marden
#Motivational #Success #Meaningful
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“All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.”
-- Orison Swett Marden
#Inspirational #Dream #Positive Thinking
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“Most men fail, not through lack of education, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.”
-- Orison Swett Marden
#Determination #Failure #Men
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“The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.”
-- Orison Swett Marden
#Motivation #Champion #Winner
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“No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.”
-- Orison Swett Marden
#Mistake #Men #Long
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“No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.”
-- Orison Swett Marden
#Pay
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“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.”
-- Orison Swett Marden
#Inspirational #Dream #Life And Love
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“Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.”
-- Orison Swett Marden
#Men #Firsts #Lasts
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“Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.”
-- Orison Swett Marden
#Inspirational #Motivational #Success
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“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.”
-- Orison Swett Marden
#Determination #Ambition #Winning
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“Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.”
-- Orison Swett Marden
#Real #Imagination #Limits
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“We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.”
-- Orison Swett Marden
#Order #Giving #Generosity
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“Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.”
-- Orison Swett Marden
#World #Woe #Enough
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“Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.”
-- Orison Swett Marden
#Friendship #Happiness #Heart
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“Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.”
-- Orison Swett Marden
#Education #Opportunity #Preparation
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“The 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 Marden
#Inspiring #Fundraising #Giving
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“The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'”
-- Orison Swett Marden
#Success #Leadership #Business
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“He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't.”
-- Orison Swett Marden
#Positive #Thinking
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“There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.”
-- Orison Swett Marden
#Being Happy #Cheer #Sunshine
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“You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.”
-- Orison Swett Marden
#Attitude #World #Change Your Attitude
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“Power gravitates to the man who knows how.”
-- Orison Swett Marden
#Men #Power #He Man
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“There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.”
-- Orison Swett Marden
#Confidence #Believe #Persistence
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“We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.”
-- Orison Swett Marden
#Success #Winning #Mind
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“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.”
-- Orison Swett Marden
#Inspirational #Motivational #Responsibility
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“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.”
-- Orison Swett Marden
#Inspirational #Sacrifice #People
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“We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.”
-- Orison Swett Marden
#Self Esteem #Vision #Higher
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“Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.”
-- Orison Swett Marden
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“Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.”
-- Orison Swett Marden
#Strong #Opportunity #Men
