Orison Swett Marden Quotes

I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.

To the stars through thorns.

I'm just always trying to be positive. Negative things happen to everybody. Everyone has to face obstacles. Everybody has to face hurdles. It's what you do with those that determines how successful you're going to be.

As you step every day and we're going to see challenges, we going to see failures, we should certainly learn from the failures and be gracious with our successes too as well.

All worthwhile journeys have big obstacles. It's the way of the world. The rewards go to those who can push through those trying moments and still manage to keep a smile on their face.

Success is a process... During that journey sometimes there are stones thrown at you, and you convert them into milestones.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it.

I am ready to accept all accusations, allegations, anger - but I have to succeed.

You know, it's just a matter of working through the pitfalls sometimes and working through the challenges that lie ahead.

You cannot understand a man’s work by what he has accomplished but by what he has overcome in accomplishing it.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

You can all get what you want to get, and so my journey was to show you how many times along the way adversity has stared me right in the face, and I've looked it right back and said, 'No.'

The more you practive overcoming your obstacles, the more you will welcome them & be unafraid.

With the right attitude, human beings can move mountains. With the wrong attitude, they can be crushed by the smallest grain of sand.

We all love challenges.

If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued. The yin and yang are clear: without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely it would be worth the journey. Persist.

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

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

Success isn't measured by what you achieve, it's measured by the obstacles you overcome.

Give your best to the challenges. And what you get will be even better.

When obstacles have been put in front of me, I just get around them and move past them and laugh at them.

A long list. From getting cut from the high school basketball team, to getting fired from jobs, getting credit cards rejected and cut up. Rejection has only been a distraction, not a roadblock. “Every no gets me closer to a yes,” was the saying I used to use.

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

It's easy to have a great attitude when things are going our way...It's when difficult challenges rise before us...that attitude becomes the difference maker.

Difficulties can't be eliminated from life. Individuals will always have them, countries will always have them...The only thing is to accept them, if possible overcome them, otherwise to come to terms with them. It's all right to fight, yes, but only when it's possible.