Orison Swett
Orison Swett
nature stars flower
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.
beautiful gratitude stars
How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles, the air seems more balmy, the sky clearer, the earth has a brighter green... the flowers are more fragrant... and the sun, moon, and stars all appear more beautiful, and seem to rejoice with us.
motivational believe knowing
There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
hope men long
As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure
success differences people
What a great discrepancy there is between people and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability, and concentrating them upon one point.
hands class people
People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others so them, but always a little better. They always pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the quality of life's work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that conquers the heights of excellence.
pay-the-price pay corners
No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
determination ambition winning
You must bring every particle of your energy, unanswerable resolution, your best efforts, your persistent industry to your task or the best will not come out of you. You must back up your ambition by your whole nature, by unbounded enthusiasm and a determination to win which knows no failure.
sleep opportunity men
Society is to the individual what the sun and showers are to the seed. It develops him, expands him, unfolds him, calls him out of himself. Other men are his opportunity. Each one is a match which ignites some new tinder in him unignitible by any previous match. Without these the sparks of individuality would sleep in him forever.
hope medicine
There is no medicine like hope ...
power men he-man
Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
time stuff world
Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.
leadership inspirational-life power
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.
dream inspiration world
Dreams that are realized become an inspiration for new endeavor. It is in the power to make the dream good that we find the hope of this world.