Orison Swett Marden Quotes

If you have a big problem in your life, all that means is that you are being a small person!

I don't have any problems in life, just situations.

What makes most of us who we are most of all is not our minds and not our bodies and not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

The best way out is always through.

I know those challenges that come up from time to time in life are our little learning tools, our little steppingstones. If we didn't have those things in our life, how would we learn anything? We would just be walking around like nothing. We need those obstacles in our life because I know one thing - I'm a much better person for them.

When you've already experienced great challenges in your career, it gives minor setbacks a different perspective.

I have overcome some demons in my path.

Life is all about how things rough up against you and how you see them and the vantage point you have from them.

It's not what you accomplish in life that matters; it's what you overcome.

Problems, obstacles, and challenges can either become the markers of our limits and limitations, or they can become the springboard into a whole new world.

We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

Obstacles are found everywhere, and in overcoming them we nourish ourselves.

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

Your current situations or problems have been sent to you to teach you valuable lessons for success and happiness. What are they?

Problems are an important part of maturing--meet them straight on. Work them out. It's like the chick in the egg. It has to break through the eggshell on its own. That's how it gains its first strength. If you break the shell for the chick, you end up with a puny little runt.

I've passed along some advice that Oprah [Winfrey] gave to me: When something bad is happening, it's not happening to you; it's happening for you.

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.

When you are in difficulties, look upon the overcoming of them as a great adventure.

Assume that whatever situation you are facing at the moment is exactly the right situation you need to ultimately be successful. This situation has been sent to help you become better, to help you expand and grow.

You know, whenever I was presented with a challenge that brought up feelings of fear or self-doubt, I almost always said, 'Yes'.

The things we overcome in life really become our strengths.

Everyone is going to face challenges. What defines you is how you overcome those.

Life is not about focusing on the obstacles. It's about how you handle them, and whether you get enlightenment or levity from the way you do it