Some inspiring thoughts from Orison Swett Marden founder of Success Magazine. Marden founderd Success Magazine, and is also considered to be the founder of the modern success movement in America. He certainly bridged the gap between the old, narrow notions of success and the new, more comprehensive models made popular by best-selling authors such as Napoleon Hill, Clement Stone, Dale Carnegie, Og Mandino, Earl Nightingale, Norman Vincent Peale, and today's authors Stephen R.Covey, Anthony Robbins, and Brian Tracy."We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers."
"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."
"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."
"Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them."
