Orison Swett Marden Quotes

You can be the most intelligent person, and you can have so much potential, but if you don't have a guide by which to channel that energy, then a lot of times, it's futile.

We all get lost along the way, but hopefully we figure out some sort of path. It helps if you can imagine the process as well as the goal. Those kinds of dreams are easier to achieve.

People are looking for fame or a focus, and I can't provide that.

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness

When you talk about being exceptional, you do two things: You clearly answer the question 'Who are you?' which is your purpose. And you answer the second question, 'Where are you going?' which is your aspiration and how you're going to get there.

To find his place and fill it is success for a man.

No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction.

What matters is where you want to go. Focus in the right direction!

Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny. Your destiny can't be changed but, it can be challenged. Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Priorities and purpose help keep us on track.

In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.

You do find a lot of your time in the West kind of searching for your place in the world - your voice, your identity, like, who am I? Like, what is my reason for being here, you know? And in that same way who am I to be partnered with, you know?

After all this time, I know exactly where I belong.

If you have no destination, you'll never get there.

What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do.

Clothe with life the weak intent, Let me be the thing I meant.

You really have to have a goal.

No being can be what he is unless he is putting his essence into action in his field.

Along with the talent, you also need direction.

Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies

Without a goal we are much like the man with a boat and nowhere to go. Goals give us the drive and energy we need to remain on track long enough for their accomplishment.

People who don't have goals work for people who do.