The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
— 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.
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.
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
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.
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.
No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
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.
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.
Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
A will finds a way.
It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
No man fails who does his best.
Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.
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.
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
