“About as poor business as one can engage in is that of going through life with one's eyes so fixed upon what… — 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… — 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… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“You cannot look into a cradle and read the secret message traced by a divine hand and wrapped up in that bit… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
No man can hope to accomplish anything great in this world until he throws his whole soul, flings the force of his… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Phillips Brooks used to say that after a man has once discovered that he has been living but a half-life the other… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“whether it is an engine or a human brain,—exercise or deteriorate is the law of life.” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life's machinery. — 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 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
“deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, powers that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
What we do for a living does not matter as much as how we do it. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“The human machine is the only medium by which the soul and the mind connect with the material world, and this marvelous… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Mirth is God's medicine; everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety-all the rust of life- ought to be scoured… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“We try to grasp too much of life at once; since we think of it as a whole, instead of living one… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
There is a legend that when God was equipping man for his long life journey of exploration, the attendant good angel was… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
There can be no life which does not contain something to be grateful for, and the habit of gratitude is one of… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Specialties facilitate commerce, and promote efficiency in the professions, but are often narrowing to individuals. The spirit of the age tends to… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in… — 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
