“The disgrace is not in falling, but in not rising every time you fall.” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The moment man cuts himself off from living connection with the human race and its needs, he begins to die from poor… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Every one who has labored honestly in the past has aided to place knowledge and comfort within the reach of a constantly… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“It is in our non-producing moments that negatives, such as fear, worry, anxiety, hatred, and jealously get in their destructive work.” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“The moment you harbor doubt and begin to lose faith in yourself, you capitulate to the enemy. Every time you acknowledge weakness,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“The very habit of expecting that the future is full of good things for you, that you are going to be prosperous… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“We try to grasp too much of life at once; since we think of it as a whole, instead of living one… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“I am success. Though hungry, cold, ill-clad, I wander for a while, and I smile and say: ‘It is but for a… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Every time we do wrong, every time we depart from the truth, every time we commit a dishonest, unworthy act, do a… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead.… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“How many people delay the kindness, the expression of love, until the person is dead, beyond their reach, and then try to… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more foolish, nothing more wicked than to drag the skeletons of the past, the hideous images, the foolish deeds, the… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“The time will come when human drones will be ostracized from society as nobodies, as thieves of honest men's efforts, thieves of… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“There is somebody not far from you at this moment, my doubting, discouraged friend, who could step into your place and command… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
We cannot separate our lives from time. Why is it that we are so extravagant, so thoughtless, in our waste of time,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Tell me what you think of yourself, show me your estimate of your possibilities, and I will predict your future. Your vision… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Where did the idea come from that we should take life so seriously, anyway? Why should a man be such a slave… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Our eyes are so focused upon the future, upon some goal in the beyond, that we do not see the beauties and… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
There is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no failure… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“John Burroughs beautifully expresses this in his poem “Waiting”: Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Every time you meet an acquaintance, whether conscious of it or not, you step upon the scales of his judgment, and he… — 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
