“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
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
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
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
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 that when God was equipping man for his long life journey of exploration, the attendant good angel was… — 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
“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
“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
“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
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 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
“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
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 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“The hatred thought cannot live an instant in the presence of the love thought.” — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share
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
“There is something inside of a man which protests against doing that which tends to injure another, that which does not square with his… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share
Keep fear out of your child's mind, as you would keep poison out of his body; for fear is the deadliest of mental poisons. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share
