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
Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.
--Orison Swett Marden
The universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes--every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
--Orison Swett Marden
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
--Orison Swett Marden
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
--Orison Swett Marden
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.
--Orison Swett Marden
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
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 founder of Success Magazine
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