Frases de Orison Swett Marden

“É como a semente colocada no solo - quanto mais se semeia, maior a colheita.”

“Quando na vida um portal se fecha para nós, há sempre outro que se abre. Em geral, porém, olhamos com tanto pesar e ressentimento para a porta fechada que não percebemos a outra que se abriu.”

“Não espere por oportunidades extraordinárias. Agarre ocasiões comuns e as faça grandes. Homens fracos esperam por oportunidades; homens fortes as criam.”

“A felicidade depende mais do estado de espírito do que das circunstâncias exteriores.”

“Uma vela nada perde quando, com sua chama, acende uma outra que está apagada.”

“Sereis bem sucedidos… Mesmo que os demais não crêem em vós… Contanto que tenhais confiança em vós próprios.”

“Os obstáculos te parecerão grandes ou pequenos dependendo se você é grande ou pequeno.”

“A economia consiste em saber gastar e a poupança em saber guardar.”

“A QUALIDADE de seu trabalho tem tudo a ver com a qualidade de sua VIDA.”

“Nós vencemos metade da batalha quando mudamos nossas mentes e aceitamos o mundo como o encontramos, inclusive os seus espinhos.”

“O caráter é a marca indelével que determina o único valor verdadeiro de todas as pessoas e todo o seu trabalho.”

“Nosso destino muda com nosso pensamento; nós nos tornaremos o que nós desejamos nos tornar, faremos o que nós desejamos fazer, quando nosso pensamento habitual corresponde com nosso desejo.”

“Vá tão longe quanto você possa ver, e quando você chegar lá você verá mais longe.”

“Todos os homens que realizaram grandes coisas eram grandes sonhadores.”

“Não existe lei pela qual se consiga fazer algo, enquanto se pensa que não se pode.”

“Nossos pensamentos e imaginação são os únicos limites reais para nossas possibilidades.”

“As coisas não mudam, nós é que mudamos. O início de um hábito é como um fio invisível, mas cada vez que o repetimos o ato reforça o fio, acrescenta-lhe outro filamento, até que se torna um enorme cabo e nos prende de forma irremediável, no pensamento e ação.”

“Pode aquele que pensa que pode, e não pode aquele que pensa que não pode. Esta é uma indiscutível e inexorável lei.”

“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.”

“If you have had an unfortunate experience, forget it. If you have made a failure in speech, your song, your book, your article, if you have been placed in an embarrassing position, if you have fallen and hurt yourself by a false step, if you have been slandered and abused, do not dwell upon it. There is not a single redeeming feature in these memories, and the presence of their ghosts will rob you of many a happy hour. There is nothing in it. Drop them. Forget them. Wipe them out of your mind forever. If you have been indiscreet, imprudent, if you have been talked about, if your reputation has been injured so that you fear you can never outgrow it or redeem it, do not drag the hideous shadows, the rattling skeletons about with you, Rub them off from the shite of memory. Wipe them out. Forget them. Start with a clean slate and spend all your energies in keeping it clean for the future.”

“Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.”

“Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.”

“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.”

“All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.”

“We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.”

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

“The most of us make our backs ache carrying useless, foolish burdens. We carry luggage and rubbish that are of no earthly use, but which sap our strength and keep us jaded and tired to no purpose. If we could only learn to hold on to the things worthwhile, and drop the rubbish, — let go the useless, the foolish, the silly, the hamperers, the things that hinder, — we should not only make progress but we should keep happy and harmonious.”

“Just because you are struggling on a farm or in a factory, doing something against which your whole nature rebels, because there is no one to help you support your aged parents or an invalid brother or sister, do not conclude that your vision must perish. Keep pushing on as best you can, and affirming your divine power to attain your desire. Hundreds and thousands of poor boys and girls with poorer opportunities than yours have done immortal deeds because they had faith in their ideal and in their power to attain it.”

“The great trouble with all of us who are struggling with unhappy or unfortunate conditions is that we have separated ourselves in some way from the great magnetic center of creation. We are not thinking right, and so we are not attracting the right things. “Think the things you want.” The profoundest philosophy is locked up in these few words. Think of them clearly, persistently, concentrating upon them with all the force and might of your mind, and struggle toward them with all your energy. This is the way to make yourself a magnet for the things you want. But the moment you begin to doubt, to worry, to fear, you demagnetize yourself, and the things you desire flee from you. You drive them away by your mental attitude. They cannot come near you while you are deliberately separating yourself from them. You are going in one direction, and the things you want are going in the opposite direction.”

“What we do when defeat stares us in the face is the real touchstone of character. But the very fact that success has time and again proved the means of awakening people to the knowledge of greater ability than they ever before dreamed they possessed, ought to hearten and encourage us to keep on no matter how often we fail. If we brace ourselves and continue to push forward we will ultimately win out.”