Dreams that are realized become an inspiration for new endeavor. It is in the power to make the dream good that we… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“You will never get any higher than your vision and your faith in that vision.” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Your highest ideal, the vision of your life work which you long to make real, is your best friend. Keep as close… — 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
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
“There is no suffering, except remorse, so fatal as that which comes from the consciousness of strangled ambition, blasted hope, stifled aspiration.… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
There is a legend of an artist who long sought for a piece of sandalwood, out of which to carve a Madonna.… — 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
“Don't try to justify yourself on the ground that somebody must do this kind of work. Let "somebody," not yourself, take the… — 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 is no one to help you support your aged parents or an invalid brother or sister, do not conclude that your vision must perish. Keep pushing on as best you can, and affirming your divine power to attain… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share
“WHATEVER THE SOUL IS TAUGHT to expect, that it will build. Our heart longings, our soul aspirations, are something more than mere… — 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
