Thrift means that you should always have the best you can possibly afford, when the thing has any reference to your physical… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Robust health and optimism produce happiness. The power of a sunny soul to transform the most trying situations in life is beyond all power to compute. The world loves the sunny soul, the man who carries his holidays in his eye and his sunshine with him. The determination to be kind and helpful to every one, to be cheerful, no… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share
“Remember that there is something else in the world even more important than making money. Your health, your family, your friendships should… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Laughter brightens the eye, increases the perspiration, expands the chest, forces the poisoned air from the least-used cells, and tends to restore… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“The highest happiness is the feeling of wellbeing which comes to one who is actively employed in doing what he was made… — 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
“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
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
“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