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
“Mr. Arthur Brisbane says: "One thing above all brings success—to like your work and to be interested in it; and not to… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Many mothers make the mistake of forever looking for the bad in the child, trying to . . . uproot and drive… — 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
Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“A fatal penalty awaits those who always look on the dark side of everything, who are always predicting evil and failure, who… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“If the farmer should make a mistake and sow thistle seed instead of wheat, the soil-doesn't say to him, "My friend, you… — 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
What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The hopeful man sees success where others see failure, sunshine where others see shadows and storm. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“If you have had an unfortunate experience, forget it. If you have made a failure in speech, your song, your book, your… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Never allow yourself to dwell on your weaknesses, your failures, your unhappy condition. Hold firmly the ideal of your efficiency, your competency,… — 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
“No, there is no failure for the man who realizes his power, who never knows when he is beaten; there is no… — 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
“Surgeons report that after a great victory, for instance, the wounds of the soldiers, as has been noticed in many similar instances,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“When you take God into partnership, when you are conscious that you are doing His work, you have a feeling of peace… — 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
“A man should be so much greater than any material failure that can come to him that it would scarcely be mentioned… — 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
