The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Let us open up our natures, throw wide the doors of our hearts and let in the sunshine of good will and… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Only those things grow in our nature which are fed. The quickest way to kill them is to cut off their nourishment.” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate… — 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
“There is something inside of a man which protests against doing that which tends to injure another, that which does not square… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“If we were all in our right places, doing the thing nature planned us to do, our work would be almost like… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles, the air seems more balmy, the sky clearer,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Just because you are struggling on a farm or in a factory, doing something against which your whole nature rebels, because there… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“You cannot defeat a strong man who believes in himself. He cannot be pushed down, cannot be ridiculed down, talked down, or… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“One of the strangest things in life is the false ideas everywhere prevalent regarding the nature of happiness. The general belief seems… — 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
