Orison Swett Marden Quotes

If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.

When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

Our intention creates our reality.

The harder you work... and visualize something, the luckier you get.

We usually get what we anticipate.

Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.

I really believe in speaking things into existence.

You can magically alter your life if you believe hard enough and then take actual physical action in the world outside your brain to make it happen.

It doesn't always work out, but if I visualize myself getting what I want, it can happen.

I wasn't a rebel. It kind of clicked in my head, like, if I want to do this, I can go out and do it. Some kids, it clicks for them, and it doesn't work out. But thank God for me it did work out. I put in all those hard hours of work, and it has gotten me to where I am.

When you say something or sing something enough times, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's almost like casting spells. I don't mean necessarily in the flighty, 'I'm going to go buy a cloak with a hood now' way.

If you put the right things out there the right things will happen.

I truly believe that when a person makes a concrete decision and takes action towards a goal that they've set, that the universe will step in and provide opportunities.

Dream and you shall become.

I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.

My optimism has helped me through some hard times. If you try to send out good things, good things come back to you.

When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.

We tend to get what we expect.

It's so cheesy, but I'm a firm believer in 'If you build it, they will come.'

Supply yourself with a mental equivalent, and the thing must come to you.

I implore you to see the universe as a warm and supportive one because you'll look for evidence to support this view. When you anticipate that the universe is friendly, you see friendly people. You look for circumstances to work in your favor. You anticipate good fortune flowing into your life.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

I don't want to sound too Oprah-ish or anything like that, but I really believe that if you have the power to imagine particular things, you have the ability to transform them.