Orison Swett Marden quotes
"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."
Take this quote mobile"The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do."
"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."
"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"
"We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out."
"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."
"Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them."
"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."
"It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest."
"It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world."