“whether it is an engine or a human brain,—exercise or deteriorate is the law of life.” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“no man will ever be willing to live a half-life when he has once seen that it is a half-life.” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made… — 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
As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling. — 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
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 power of material things, to bestow happiness, to bring joy into the life is tremendously exaggerated. The right mental attitude, the… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“The majority of people carry in their minds and in their hearts, grudges, jealousy, envy, antipathies, prejudices, which, although not very pronounced… — 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
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
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
“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
“Hate seed in the heart cannot produce a love flower in the life. A sinister thought will produce a sinister harvest. The… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“We believe in a man in proportion to his immovableness from principle, the fixity of his faith in his mission. The man… — 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
Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“The habit of learning to appreciate to the utmost every situation in life adds wonderfully to the sum total of one's happiness.… — 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
“The great mass of people do not extract ten per cent, of the happiness possible in their everyday life, largely because they… — 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
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
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
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
“One of the strangest things in life is the false ideas everywhere prevalent regarding the nature of happiness. The general belief seems… — 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
“We long for freedom, we want to soar, to try the wings God gave us; yet we are losing our power because… — 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
“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
“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
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Every discovery in science and art, is due to the trained power of seeing things ... Keep your eyes open, your ears… — 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
Whatever comes to us in life we create first in our mentality. As the building is a reality in all its details… — 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
“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
“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
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
“It is not so much a question of how far you have traveled as which way you face. It is facing life… — 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
