Frases de Orison Swett Marden

“No se sale adelante celebrando éxitos sino superando fracasos.”

“La suerte no es más que la habilidad de aprovechar las ocasiones favorables.”

“Que cada ocasión sea una gran ocasión, porque no sabéis cuándo el destino os favorecerá.”

“Pobre es quien no está satisfecho; y rico, quien se contenta con lo que tiene y disfruta de cuanto los demás poseen.”

“Ninguna suposición más engañosa que la que asegura poder hacer mañana lo que no pudimos o no quisimos hacer hoy.”

“La economía consiste en saber gastar y el ahorro en saber guardar.”

“La economía es una siembra.”

“La verdadera ciencia está muy por encima de los apasionamientos políticos, de las diferencias de raza e idioma y de los sectarismos religiosos.”

“Vale más un céntimo bien empleado que un céntimo ahorrado.”

“Un guijarro en el lecho de un pobre arroyuelo puede mudar el curso de un río.”

“Fijarnos limitaciones a nosotros mismos es uno de los pecados capitales de la humanidad.”

“Sembramos la semilla y la naturaleza nos da una cosecha correspondiente: esta es la ley en el plano físico.”

“Lo que importa no es tanto lo que haces con tus manos como lo que haces con tu mente. Todo lo que se ha logrado por la mano o el cerebro del hombre, nació en la mente.”

“Únicamente queda vencido quien capitula con la adversidad.”

“Si lográramos aprender el arte de mantenerse siempre ecuánimes, reduplicaríamos incomparablemente nuestra eficacia.”

“Si eres inconstante como el agua, no llegarás a la cumbre.”

“Prefiero estimar cosas que no puedo poseer a poseer cosas que no puedo estimar.”

“Pensad siempre en la superioridad, y seréis superiores.”

“Muy perniciosa doctrina es la que establece la verdadera felicidad en los bienes materiales, en vez de fundarla en las cualidades del caracter. Cuanto más se tiene, más se desea, y en vez de llenar, abrimos un vacío.”

“La vida nos da cuanto queramos si podemos pagar su precio.”

“La mejor prueba de carácter es mantenerse jovial, sereno y esperanzado aun en la desgracia.”

“La fe mira el futuro, ve cosas que no podemos ver con los ojos.”

“Hay gentes que padecen tres clases de tribulación: la que tuvieron, la que tienen y la que esperan tener.”

“En los muros del tiempo trabajamos todos como arquitectos de nuestro propio destino.”

“Encontraré el camino o me lo abriré yo mismo.”

“El principio de toda realización ha de estar en vuestra conciencia.”

“El hombre venturoso no espera nunca que algo le mude la fortuna.”

“Aunque arriesguemos equivocarnos, alguna vez valdrá más arriesgar la equivocación enérgicamente que titubear sin valor.”

“The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment, it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.”

“If you have had an unfortunate experience, forget it. If you have made a failure in speech, your song, your book, your article, if you have been placed in an embarrassing position, if you have fallen and hurt yourself by a false step, if you have been slandered and abused, do not dwell upon it. There is not a single redeeming feature in these memories, and the presence of their ghosts will rob you of many a happy hour. There is nothing in it. Drop them. Forget them. Wipe them out of your mind forever. If you have been indiscreet, imprudent, if you have been talked about, if your reputation has been injured so that you fear you can never outgrow it or redeem it, do not drag the hideous shadows, the rattling skeletons about with you, Rub them off from the shite of memory. Wipe them out. Forget them. Start with a clean slate and spend all your energies in keeping it clean for the future.”

“Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do.”

“Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.”

“The greatest thing a man can do in this world, is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.”

“All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.”

“When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. We cannot take more than one step at a time.”

“Success is not measured by what you accomplish but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.”

“Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.”

“We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.”

“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.”

“The most of us make our backs ache carrying useless, foolish burdens. We carry luggage and rubbish that are of no earthly use, but which sap our strength and keep us jaded and tired to no purpose. If we could only learn to hold on to the things worthwhile, and drop the rubbish, — let go the useless, the foolish, the silly, the hamperers, the things that hinder, — we should not only make progress but we should keep happy and harmonious.”

“Just because you are struggling on a farm or in a factory, doing something against which your whole nature rebels, because there is no one to help you support your aged parents or an invalid brother or sister, do not conclude that your vision must perish. Keep pushing on as best you can, and affirming your divine power to attain your desire. Hundreds and thousands of poor boys and girls with poorer opportunities than yours have done immortal deeds because they had faith in their ideal and in their power to attain it.”

“The great trouble with all of us who are struggling with unhappy or unfortunate conditions is that we have separated ourselves in some way from the great magnetic center of creation. We are not thinking right, and so we are not attracting the right things. “Think the things you want.” The profoundest philosophy is locked up in these few words. Think of them clearly, persistently, concentrating upon them with all the force and might of your mind, and struggle toward them with all your energy. This is the way to make yourself a magnet for the things you want. But the moment you begin to doubt, to worry, to fear, you demagnetize yourself, and the things you desire flee from you. You drive them away by your mental attitude. They cannot come near you while you are deliberately separating yourself from them. You are going in one direction, and the things you want are going in the opposite direction.”

“What we do when defeat stares us in the face is the real touchstone of character. But the very fact that success has time and again proved the means of awakening people to the knowledge of greater ability than they ever before dreamed they possessed, ought to hearten and encourage us to keep on no matter how often we fail. If we brace ourselves and continue to push forward we will ultimately win out.”