We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.
Orison Swett MardenWe advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
Orison Swett MardenThe Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
Orison Swett MardenIt is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as hard, if not harder, than day laborers; and that the most obvious reason why they have been superior to other men is that they have taken more pains than other men.
Orison Swett Marden