Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel. — 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
