Motivational quotes

Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

Marden founded Success magazine and effectively invented the American self-improvement book; this is the thesis of the shortest of them.

No one will insist upon your rights while you yourself doubt that you have any.

success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price, and it is yours.

Failure often leads a man to success by arousing his latent energy, by firing a dormant purpose, by awakening powers which were sleeping.

Written of rejected manuscripts, in a passage headed by the words Returned with thanks.

No matter if you have lost your property, your health, your reputation even, there is always hope for the man who keeps a firm faith in himself and looks up.

Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer.

Uncertainty gives fear a chance to get in its deadly work on the imagination and make cowards of us.

When the need comes, there is a power deep within us that answers the call.

Great tenacity of purpose is the only thing that will carry you over the hard places which appear in every career to ultimate triumph.

Addressed to the person who is smarting under the drudgery of an occupation and haunted by the idea that they could do better at something else.

No one can pursue a worthy object steadily and persistently with all the powers of his mind, and yet make his life a failure.

Success is jealous of scattered energies.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

The sentence follows Paul saying he has learned to manage both plenty and want. It is about sufficiency in either, which is not how it is usually deployed.