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 Image
Self-Control is the very essence of character. To be able to look a man straight in the eye, calmly and deliberately, without… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Who can estimate the real wealth that inheres in a fine character. . . . How base and mean money and huge… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame - manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“The thoughtless, the ignorant, and the indolent, seeing only the apparent effects of things and not the things themselves, talk of luck,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence.… — 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
One of the best strengtheners of character and developers of stamina ... is to assume the part you wish to play; to… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Every thought which enters the mind, every word we utter, every deed we perform, makes its impression upon the inmost fiber of… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The greatest advantage of books does not always come from what we remember of them, but from their suggestiveness, their character-building power. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Defeats and failures are great developers of character. They have made the giants of our race by giving Titanic muscles, brawny sinews,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Character is a mark cut upon something, and this indelible mark determines the only true value of all people and all their… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“What we do when defeat stares us in the face is the real touchstone of character. But the very fact that success… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“The hatred thought cannot live an instant in the presence of the love thought.” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. — 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 circulation. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
