One of the best strengtheners of character and developers of stamina ... is to assume the part you wish to play; to assert stoutly the possession of whatever you lack.
Orison Swett MardenThe greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power.
Orison Swett MardenAnalyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
Orison Swett MardenThe power of material things, to bestow happiness, to bring joy into the life is tremendously exaggerated. But The right mental attitude for example gratitude that things are not worse, the trained mind the right habits of thought - lifeskills, will bring to us the best there is in the universe.
Orison Swett Marden