Orison Swett Marden

Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

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 whom you come in contact everyday.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

Books make it possible for every person born into the world to begin where the previous generation left off.

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 great trouble with all of us who are struggling with unhappy or unfortunate conditions is that we have separated ourselves in some way from the great magnetic center of creation. We are not thinking right, and so we are not attracting the right things. __hink the things you want._ The profoundest philosophy is locked up in these few words. Think of them clearly, persistently, concentrating upon them with all the force and might of your mind, and struggle toward them with all your energy. This is the way to make yourself a magnet for the things you want. But the moment you begin to doubt, to worry, to fear, you demagnetize yourself, and the things you desire flee from you. You drive them away by your mental attitude. They cannot come near you while you are deliberately separating yourself from them. You are going in one direction, and the things you want are going in the opposite direction.

One hour a day withdrawn from frivolous pursuits and profitably employed would enable any man of ordinary capacity to master a complete science. One hour a day would in ten years make an ignorant man a well-informed man_In an hour a day, a boy or girl could read twenty pages thoughtfully__ver seven thousand pages, or eighteen large volumes in a year. An hour a day might make all the difference between bare existence and useful, happy living. An hour a day might make__ay, has made__n unknown man a famous one, a useless man a benefactor to his race.

Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed pay the price and it is yours.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Every young man or woman should weigh the matter well before concluding that a college education is out of the question.

One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.

We make the world we live in and shape our own environment.

A will finds a way.

Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.

If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.