Nearly all the great improvements, discoveries, inventions, and achievements which have elevated and blessed humanity have been the triumphs of enthusiasm.
— Orison Swett Marden
Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.
Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
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.
The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
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.
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
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.
What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.
It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.
When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.
A good system shortens the road to the goal.
We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.
No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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.
Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
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.
There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day.
There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.
Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
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.
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.
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
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.
Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.
Be larger than your task.
