Orison Swett Marden Quotes

The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.

Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement.

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

You can change your fate. You can sit back, or you can go after your life and all that you want it to be.

We must not wait for things to come, believing that they are decided by irrescindable destiny. If we want it, we must do something about it.

Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

I run my own world, because I very firmly believe that my destiny, my future is in my hands and I don't want to blame anybody else for the path that I take.

You shape your own destiny.

I like motivational books, because I like the go-getting American spirit - your destiny is in your own hands, life is what you make it, don't accept your limitations, jump before you're pushed, leap before you look.

God helps those who help themselves.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

I'm not in charge of my life.

Ultimately the person, even the child, must choose for himself.

You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.

The works of present life are more important that the whole and entire reliance on wholesale blind fate.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

You have to make your own destiny.

I don't feel like my life happens to me. I feel like I happen to my life. I feel that I'm in the driver's seat.

I believe whatever has to happen will happen - you just need to stand up for yourself.

Nothing happens until you decide.

You are not here to try to get the world to be just as you want it. You are here to create the world around you that you choose.

The power to affect your future lies within your own hands.

To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.