Orison Swett Marden Quotes

You'll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

You will become what you believe. The truth is, I am what I am today because of what I believed about myself yesterday. And I will be tomorrow what I believe about myself right now

A man is always better than he thinks.

Your world will follow your idea about yourself.

You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.

You will never rise above the image you have of yourself in your own mind.

Your success and happiness start with you.

Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something,it makes me incapable of doing it. When I believe I can,I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.’"Mahatma Gandhi

I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.

Spending too much time focused on others' strengths leaves us feeling weak. Focusing on our own strengths is what, in fact, makes us strong.

It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.

The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

We all put obstacles in our own path toward personal style, myself included. If we understood why we constructed these practical and emotional obstacles, we might move beyond it to healthier, happier perceptions of ourselves and, ideally, a better sense of self-esteem.

Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment.

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

I had a ninth grade teacher who told me I was much smarter and much better than I was allowing myself to be.

I know who I am by now. And I am my own brand.

I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.

In order to grow emotionally and mentally, sometimes you have to grow physically as well. I'm just trying to grow, man, and always I just want to be the best and most confident me I can be.

I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself, and that is so important. And not just about your body, but so many ways of confidence. You're constantly learning how to be confident, aren't you?

One of the things your unconscious mind does for you - and it's a great gift - is it gives you extra courage to view the outer world and it does that by giving you an extra-special view of yourself.

If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.

Although men are accused of not knowing their weakness, yet perhaps as few know their strength.

I understood that I am a lot bigger than what I do, that I have a bigger potential.

Everyone's the hero in their own story. You've lived your life. You're the good guy of your life, the protagonist of your own movie. Everyone knows that they have more in them to offer than they sometimes show.