Orison Swett Marden

“We can so educate the will power that it will focus the thoughts upon the bright side of things, and upon objects…

— Orison Swett Marden

“Gulliver was a giant whom the dwarfs captured while he was napping by binding him with tiny threads. Each thread was a…

— Orison Swett Marden

“The hatred thought cannot live an instant in the presence of the love thought.”

— Orison Swett Marden

“About as poor business as one can engage in is that of going through life with one's eyes so fixed upon what…

— Orison Swett Marden

“We tend to get what we expect, and if we expect nothing we get nothing. The stream cannot rise higher than its…

— Orison Swett Marden

There never will be a trust in excellence or a combination in superiority. As long as you can do a thing a…

— Orison Swett Marden

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or…

— Orison Swett Marden

Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless…

— Orison Swett Marden

Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.

— Orison Swett Marden

“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

If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.

— Orison Swett Marden

The moment man cuts himself off from living connection with the human race and its needs, he begins to die from poor…

— Orison Swett Marden

“There is something inside of a man which protests against doing that which tends to injure another, that which does not square…

— Orison Swett Marden

A good system shortens the road to the goal.

— Orison Swett Marden

Keep fear out of your child's mind, as you would keep poison out of his body; for fear is the deadliest of…

— Orison Swett Marden

“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

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

The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished…

— Orison Swett Marden

“The disgrace is not in falling, but in not rising every time you fall.”

— Orison Swett Marden

Self-Control is the very essence of character. To be able to look a man straight in the eye, calmly and deliberately, without…

— Orison Swett Marden

No one should voluntarily remain in an environment which prevents his development.

— Orison Swett Marden

“Mr. Arthur Brisbane says: "One thing above all brings success—to like your work and to be interested in it; and not to…

— Orison Swett Marden

“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

“The habit of thinking of ourselves as sublime, or having a lofty conception of our possibilities, of imagining ourselves as being commanded…

— Orison Swett Marden

“The Gods we worship write their names on our faces.” The face is carved from within by invisible tools; our thoughts, our…

— Orison Swett Marden