Orison Swett Marden

“Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.”

“Circumstances have rarely favored great men. A lowly beginning is no bar to a great career. The boy who works his way through college may have a hard time of it, but he will learn how to wor...”

“Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the...”

“All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.”

“Unless generosity of spirit prevails among men, there can never be upon earth an ideal life.”

“The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'”

“Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.”

“There is not a single indication in man's wonderful mechanism that he was created for a life of poverty. There is something larger and grander for him in the divine plan than perpetual slave...”

“The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.”

“No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.”

“Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.”

“The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.”

“Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.”

“Strength of will is the test of a young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip?”

“One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.”

“Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.”

“Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do. Never for an instant harbor a doubt of it.”

“It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.”

“We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.”

“It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.”