“If you have not what you like, like what you have until you can change your environment. "Do not waste your vitality… — 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
“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 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 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
You know from past experiences that whenever you have been driven to the wall, or thought you were, you have extricated yourself… — 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
The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Life is not mean, it is grand; if it is mean to any, he or she makes it so. God made it… — 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
“I know of no one thing that will have a greater influence upon your life than the forming of the habit of… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Where did the idea come from that we should take life so seriously, anyway? Why should a man be such a slave… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“Oh, what riches live in a sunny soul! Take joy with you; cling to her, no matter where you go or what… — 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 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
“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
“The only way to be happy is to take advantage of the little opportunities that come to us to brighten life as… — 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
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
“Fun is the cheapest and best medicine in the world for your children as well as for yourself. Give it to them… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“We were made to dominate our environment. It was not intended that we should be buffeted about by accident or chance. Our… — 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
As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure — 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
