Immense Quotes by Orison Swett Marden

“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

“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

“The hatred thought cannot live an instant in the presence of the love thought.”

— Orison Swett Marden

“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

“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

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

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

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

Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.

— Orison Swett Marden

“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

If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.

— Orison Swett Marden

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