Orison Swett Marden

Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.

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.

When a man feels throbbing within him, the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say "amen" to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - this is happiness, this is success.

Success is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the opposition he has encountered, and the courage with which he has maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. . . .

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.

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

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

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 when you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

Obstacles will look large or small to you according to whether you are large or small.