Orison Swett Marden

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

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

Economize in other things if you must, wear threadbare clothes if necessary, but never cheat your body or brain by the quality and quantity of your food. Poor, cheap food which produces low vitality and inferior brain force is the worst kind of economy.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system; work keeps it in health and order.

Open eyes will discover opportunities everywhere; open ears will never fail to detect the cries of those who are perishing for assistance; open hearts will never want for worthy objects upon which to bestow their gifts; open hands will never lack for noble work to do.

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

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.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Whoever uplifts civilization is rich though he die penniless, and future generations will erect his monument.

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.

No man can stand still; the moment progress is not made, retrogression begins. If the blade is not kept sharp and bright, the law of rust will assert its claim.