"Most of our obstacles would melt away
if, instead of cowering before them,
we should make up our minds
to walk boldly through them."
- Orison Swett Marden

 

inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
Orison Swett Marden

A good system shortens the road to the goal.
Orison Swett Marden

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

A will finds a way
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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

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
Orison Swett Marden

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.
Orison Swett Marden

Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
Orison Swett Marden

Be larger than your task.
Orison Swett Marden

Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
Orison Swett Marden

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.
Orison Swett Marden

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

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.
Orison Swett Marden

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.
Orison Swett Marden

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.
Orison Swett Marden

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

It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.
Orison Swett Marden

It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.Orison Swett Marden

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.
Orison Swett Marden

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
Orison Swett Marden

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
Orison Swett Marden

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.
Orison Swett Marden

No man fails who does his best.
Orison Swett Marden

No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
Orison Swett Marden

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.
Orison Swett Marden

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.
Orison Swett Marden

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
Orison Swett Marden

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

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us
.Orison Swett Marden

Power gravitates to the man who knows how.
Orison Swett Marden

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
Orison Swett Marden

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
Orison Swett Marden

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

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.Orison Swett Marden

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
Orison Swett Marden

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

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
Orison Swett Marden

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

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.
Orison Swett Marden

 Books By Orison, Swett Marden

Confusion is always the most honest response.
  - Marty Indik

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
  - William James

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
  - Joseph Wood Krutch

I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.
  - Ray Bradbury I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.
  - George Best Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
  - Sir Winston Churchill

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
  - Peter de Vries As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.
  - George Carlin Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
  - Douglas Adams

Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.
  - Barbara Tober

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
  - Voltaire

Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
  - Katharine Hepburn

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then.

Katharine Hepburn

"Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing; every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning." -Thomas Kempis

"The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little." - W. R. Inge

"Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you." -Rumi

Without dreams and purpose, our lives our meaningless so make your dreams as vivid as possible. "The only place where dreams are impossible is in your own mind." - Emalie

"If people like you they’ll listen to you, but if they trust you they’ll do business with you." ~ Zig Ziglar ~

Be open to everything that comes through love. Love will always show you the way. Trust in your heart's message today. Jennifer Scott.

No matter what's going on in your life today, take some quiet time and be grateful for all that you have. Focus on those things so your heart expands and anything negative will melt away. Jennifer Scott.

Something important for us to remember: "The Intuitive Mind is a sacred gift and the Rational Mind is a faithful servant. We have created a societ that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift." - Albert Einstein

"You've been walking in circles, searching. Don't drink by the water's edge. Throw yourself in. Become the water. Only then will your thirst end." Jeanette Berson

"“Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for fewer problems, wish for more skills.- Earl Shoaf

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it”. - Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe -

"And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same." Nelson Mandela.

"To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle." Walt Whitman.

"A cheerful friend is like a sunny day spreading brightness all around." -John Lubcock

"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller
 

The morning of life is like the dawn of a day, full of purity, visions, and harmony-- -Chateubriand

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow." - Chinese Proverb 

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” - Rumi

"Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed." Winston Churchill

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. -Mark Twain

"A man's health can be judged by which he takes two at a time - pills or stairs." Joan Welsh

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. - Rumi

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets. - Clark Moustakas

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin. - Ivan Turgenev

"The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces." - Traditional Proverb

"The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces." - Traditional Proverb

“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.” - Albert Einstein

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." -Anais Nin

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Mark Twain: Quotes for Weight Loss Motivation
Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

Julius Erving: Quotes for Weight Loss Motivation
If you don't do what's best for your body, you're the one who comes up on the short end.

Jim Eason.: Quotes for Weight Loss Motivation
If you want to look young and thin, hang around old fat people.

Unknown Author: Quotes for Weight Loss Motivation
Instead of giving myself reasons why I can't, I give myself reasons why I can.

Vince Lombardi: Quotes for Weight Loss Motivation
It's not whether you get knocked down; it's whether you get up.

Milton Garland: Quotes for Weight Loss Motivation
My advice is to go into something and stay with it until you like it. You can't like it until you obtain expertise in that work. And once you are an expert, it's a pleasure.

Winston Churchill: Quotes for Weight Loss Motivation
Never, never, never, never give up.

Eleanor Roosevelt.: Quotes for Weight Loss Motivation
No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi: Quotes for Weight Loss Motivation
Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.

Horace: Quotes for Weight Loss Motivation
Rule your mind or it will rule you.

 

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