ORISON SWETT MARDEN QUOTES

ORISON SWETT MARDEN SUCCESS 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. 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. 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. Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us. 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. 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. 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. 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. The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do. The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. 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. There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us. What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart? ORISON SWETT MARDEN