Orison Swett Marden Quotes

I've taken many knocks over the years but it has only made me stronger and more determined to succeed.

Hard times may test me, they cannot destroy me.

I try to view the challenges in my life not as annoyances, but as confirmations of fortitude.

A gentleman can live through anything.

Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.

There's going to be good things that get you, and there's going to be bad things that get you, so you better be willing, and your skin better be thick.

I have been fascinated with survival and having to go on no matter what. That always appealed to me.

To be honest...here is a task for all that a man has of fortitude...

That loss was to breed an independence, a toughness of spirit, and an awareness of adversity and discipline that have never left me,.

Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard as iron.

The person who can dominate during rough times is the person who can dominate, period.

Courage? The moment when my troubles are going to end is not the moment when my courage is going to fail me.

The true test of a character is to face hard conditions with the determination to make them better.

You're always going to face criticism, you're always going to face challenges, but those things are there to make you stronger and more committed.

It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount.

Defeat doesn't finish a man, quit does.

The loss of fortune to a true man is but the trumpet challenge to renewed exertion, not the thunder stroke of destruction.

Character is the virtue of hard times.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more on it. A strength which becomes clearer and stronger through experiences of such obstacles is the only strength that can conquer them. Resistance is only a waste of strength.

Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.

If we don't be going strong, we're going weak, and we can't afford to go weak. We've got too many problems to do that.

It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.

I was raised to face any challenge.