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 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
“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
“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
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
“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
The power of material things, to bestow happiness, to bring joy into the life is tremendously exaggerated. But The right mental attitude… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
We cannot separate our lives from time. Why is it that we are so extravagant, so thoughtless, in our waste of time,… — 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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
Even the men most richly endowed with ability, education, and opportunity, even the giants of the race, after the completest life possible,… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“The very habit of expecting that the future is full of good things for you, that you are going to be prosperous… — 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
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
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
“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
“If we were all in our right places, doing the thing nature planned us to do, our work would be almost like… — 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
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
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
“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
“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 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
“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
