Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“A man will remain a rag picker as long as he has only a rag picker’s vision.” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. --Orison Swett Marden — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Poverty often hides her charms under an ugly mask; yet thousands have been forced into greatness by their very struggle to keep… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
What a great discrepancy there is between men and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Most men fail, not through lack of education, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
It is certain that the greatest poets, orators, statesmen, and historians, men of the most brilliant and imposing talents, have labored as… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Anybody can work when everything goes smoothly, when there is nothing to trouble him; but a man must be made of the… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Success is in the student, not in the university; greatness is in the individual, not in the library; power is in the… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or… — 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
