Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Superiority - doing things a little better than anybody else can do them. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
There never will be a trust in excellence or a combination in superiority. As long as you can do a thing a… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Aspiration lifts the life; groveling lowers it. When we are striving for excellence in everything we do the entire life grows and… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan.… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“We can so educate the will power that it will focus the thoughts upon the bright side of things, and upon objects which elevate… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share
“Gulliver was a giant whom the dwarfs captured while he was napping by binding him with tiny threads. Each thread was a trifle which… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share
“The hatred thought cannot live an instant in the presence of the love thought.” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share
“About as poor business as one can engage in is that of going through life with one's eyes so fixed upon what others have,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share
“We tend to get what we expect, and if we expect nothing we get nothing. The stream cannot rise higher than its fountainhead;” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share
There never will be a trust in excellence or a combination in superiority. As long as you can do a thing a little better… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share
There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share
Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share
Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share
“The universe is one great kindergarten. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share
If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share
The moment man cuts himself off from living connection with the human race and its needs, he begins to die from poor circulation. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share
“There is something inside of a man which protests against doing that which tends to injure another, that which does not square with his… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share
Keep fear out of your child's mind, as you would keep poison out of his body; for fear is the deadliest of mental poisons. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share
