Orison Swett Marden

“What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?”

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

“Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.”

“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.”

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

“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 have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.”

“Power gravitates to the man who knows how.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.”

“Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.”

“When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.”

“Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.”

“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.”

“Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.”

“The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.”