Energy
“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.”
Orison Swett Marden
Sports
“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.”
Orison Swett Marden
Dreams
“All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.”
Orison Swett Marden
Opportunities
“Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.”
Orison Swett Marden
Excellence
“It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.”
Orison Swett Marden
Habits
“Man becomes a slave to his constantly repeated acts. What he at first chooses, at last compels.”
Orison Swett Marden
Opportunities
“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
Seeing
“The golden rule for every business man is this: Put yourself in your customer’s place.”
Orison Swett Marden
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.”
Orison Swett Marden
Leadership
“The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.”
Orison Swett Marden
Expectation
“We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.”
Orison Swett Marden
Dreams
“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.”
Orison Swett Marden