Quotes contributed by members of Famous Quotes and Famous Sayings at The Famous Quotes List.

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns 
--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 

The universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. 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 

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 

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

When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success. 
--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 

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 founder of Success Magazine