Law Of Attraction Quotes

"The future is simply an extension of the present. You are right now by your thought habit, by your prevailing mental attitude, making your place in life. You are locating yourself, settling what you are to be. In other wors, you are right now making your futurem deciding what your position in the world shall be. And it will be broad, ever growing, ever expanding, or it will become narrower, more pinched and rutty, according to your mental plan, accoring to the vision you see."Orison Swett Marden How To Get What You Want (1917)

"You must back up that which your heart longs to realize with an honest purpose to do your best, a dead-in-earnest effort to make your vision real. The mere holding of the desire to do so, no matter how persistently or stromgly you hold it, will not help you to realize your dreams. You must not only sow the seed of desire and longing, but you must do all the nourishing, cultivating, caring for, or you will only reap a thistle harvest. We see men and women everywhere reaping a very thistly, a very weedy harvest from the sowing of mere longings. These people can scarcely get enough out of their harvest to keep them alive, simply beacuse they took no crae of their seed after the planting." Orison Swett Marden How To Get What You Want (1917)

"The thoughtless, the ignorant, and the indolent, seeing only the apparent effect of things and not the things themselves, talk of luck, of fortune and chance. Seeing a man grow rich, they say 'How lucky he is!'Observing another become intellectual, they exclaim 'How highly favored he is!'And nothing the saintly character and wide influence of another, they remark, 'How chance aids him at every turn!'They do not see the trials and failures and struggles which these man have voluntarily encountered in order to gain their experience; have no knowledge of the sacrifice they have made, of undaunted efforts they have put forth, of the faith they have exercised, that they might overcome the apparently insurmountable, and realize the vision of their heart."
Orison Swett Marden How To Get What You Want (1917)

"How often do we hear it said of some man, "Everything he touches turns to gold. " Why? Because the man is constantly picturing to himself the success of his undertakings and he is backing up his vision by his efforts. By clinging to his vision, by vigorous resolution and persistant, determined endeavour he is continually making himself a powerful magnet to draw his own to him. Consciously or unconsciously, he is using the divine intelligence or force by the use of which every human being may mold himself and his environment according to the pattern in his mind." Orison Swett Marden How To Get What You Want (1917)

"Faith increases confidence, carries conviction, multiplies ability. Faith doesn't think or guess. It sees the way out. It is not discourages or blinded by mountains of difficulties, because it sees through them - sees the goal beyond." Orison Swett Marden - How To Get What You Want

"Fears and doubts repel prosperity. Abundace cannot get to a person who holds such a mental attitude. Things that are unlike in the mental realm repel one another." Orison Swett Marden - How To Get What You Want

"Health can be established only by thinking health, just as disease is established by thinking disease. Just as you must think success, expect it, visualize it, you must attract it by making your mind a huge health magnet to attract more health, abundant health. As long as physical defects, weaknesses or diseased conditions exist in the imagination, as long as the mind is filled with visions of ill health the body must correspond, because our bodies are but an extension of our thoughts, our minds objectified." Orison Swett Marden - How To Get What You Want

"I know of no other means of self-discovery so potent as an inspiring book, and it is a great thing to keep such books near you, because ideals become dim if we do not constantly stimulate them by the right mental food." Orison Swett Marden - How To Get What You Want

"Don't be afraid of your longings; there is divinity in them. Don't try to strangle them because you think they are too extravagant, too Utopian . The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you do not have the ability to do."

"Your mental attitude will lead into the light or hold you in darkness. It will lead you you to hope or despair, to a glorious success or a miserable failure, and it is entirely within your own power to choose what it shall be." Orison Swett Marden - How To Get What You Want

"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." Orison Swett Marden - How To Get What You Want

"Psychology is teaching us that all forms of discouragement, despondent thoughts, thoughts of doubt and fear, of worry, must be kept out of the mind, for it cannot create while these enemies are in posession of the mental kingdom. We are finding that in order to create, to build, we must hold a constructive mental attitude all the time, that we must keep all the negatives, all thoughts of discouragement, despondancy, of possible failure out of the mind. We are learning through psychology that we can produce only that which we concentrate upon, that which we constantly think of; that only that which is dominant in our mind, whether it is beneficial or injurious, will be reproduced in our lives." Orison Swett Marden - How To Get What You Want

"Happiness is born of right living. It is the child of right thinking, right acting, of helpful service. A selfish life never knows real happiness. Greed and envy never touch it....Every noble deed, every unselfish act, every bit of helpfulness to others, every good service to humanity, every lofty aspiration and helpful thought, good honest hard work which we love, inevitably brings an amount of happiness which corresponds with the unselfishness and the good intentions of the act." Orison Swett Marden How To Get What You Want

"No matter what other people may think or say about you, never allow yourself to doubt that you can do what you will to do. Boldly, confidentlyassert that there is a special place for you in the world, an individual role which only you can fill, and that you are going to fill it like a man. Train yourself to expect great things of yourself. Never admit, even by your manner, that you think you are destined to do little things all your life." Orison Swett Marden - How To Get What You Want

"If all of the poverty-stricken people in the world today would quit thinking of poverty, quit dwelling on it, worrying about it and fearing it; if they would wipe the poverty thought out of their minds, if they would cut off mentally all relations with poverty and substitute the opulent thought, the prosperity thought, the mental attitude that faces toward prosperity, they would soon begin to change conditions. It is the dwelling on the thing, the fearing it, the worrying about it, the anxiety about it, the terror of it, that attracts us to it and attracts it to us. We cut off our supply current and establish relations with want, with poverty-stricken conditions." Orison Swett Marden - How To Get What You Want

"The chief cause of our discontent and unhappiness is that hardly any one is satisfied with what he has. The little simple things don't count for anything with us. We are always looking for some big things to make us happy, a fortune, some grand opportunity, some indefintae happiness which we at a loss to describe. And we seem to think that whatever this thing is that is going to make us really happy is always somewhere in the shadowy future." Orison Swett Marden - How To Get What You Want

"Stop thinking trouble if you want to attract it's opposite; stop thinking poverty if you wish to attract plenty. Refuse to have anything to do with the things that you fear, the things that you do not want." Orisson Swett Marden

"Prosperity never comes by merely wishing or longing for it. Keeping your mind fixed on it, simply thinking of prosperity, will never bring it to you. This is only the first step. You must cling to your prosperity thought, your prosperity ideal, but you must also back it up with scientific methods, the practical common-sense methods which all successful men employ in their work. You might dream of abundance and prosperity all your life-time and die in the poorhouse, if you do not back up your dream with businesslike effeciency methods. That is, you must be methodical, orderly, systematic, accurate, thorough, industrious. You must do everything to a finish. You must fling your energy, your heart into your business, your profession, your work, whatever it is." Orison Swett Marden - How To Get What You Want

Hi EveryoneI'm currently reading Orison Swett Marden's book "How To Get What You Want" and I came across this paragraph that I had to share with all of you."It is the man you are capable of making, not the man you have become, that is most important to you. You cannot afford to carry this enormous asset to your grave unused. As a business man you would not think of having a lot of idle capital in the bank, drawing no interest, uninvested, unused.

Do you realize that this is exactly what you are doing to yourself? You have assets within you that are infinitely more valuable than money capital. Why do you not use your capital? This is what you would ask a business man who was pinching along, worried all the time because he thought that he could not meet his obligations, pay his notes, when he had a large amount of idle capital in the bank. You would declare the man was foolish.

You are more foolish because you have immortal capital lying idle. Why don't you use it? Why do you hitch along in this little one-horse way all your life when you have so much unused capital, so much reserve assets? Why not use them?" Orisson Swett Marden How To Get What You Want





What a powerful lesson for us all. I think so many people spend their lives that way. How sad to come to the end of your life and realize that you had the power within you to live the life of your dreams, but you squandered it and settled for crumbs when you could have had the feast.