Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
No matter how humble your work may seem, do it in the spirit of an artist, of a master. In this way… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Let your air be that of a winner, a man who is resolved to make his way in the world, to make… — 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
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
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
A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Success is in the student, not in the university; greatness is in the individual, not in the library; power is in the… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Men are naturally lazy, and require some great stimulus to goad their flagging ambitions and enable them to overcome the inertia which… — 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
