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
“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
“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 college diploma has no more power to hold the knowledge you have gained in college than a piece of tissue paper… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“The bird does not have an instinct to fly South in winter without a real South to match it; nor has the… — 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
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
“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
“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
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 trouble with us is that we expect too much from the great happenings, the unusual things, and we overlook the common… — 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
“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
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
“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
Aspiration lifts the life; groveling lowers it. When we are striving for excellence in everything we do the entire life grows and… — 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
“You will find a stimulating effect in always considering yourself as lucky or fortunate. It is a great thing to form a… — 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
“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
