Orison Swett Marden

One penny may seem to you a very insignificant thing, but it is the small seed from which fortunes spring.

Orison Swett Marden

One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don’t save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening’s amusement or for a useful book.

Orison Swett Marden

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.

Orison Swett Marden

Our dreaming capacity gives us a peep into the glorious realities that await us further on. It is the evidence of things possible to us.

Orison Swett Marden

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

Orison Swett Marden

Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.

Orison Swett Marden

Resolve that whatever you do, you will bring the whole man to it; that you will fling the whole weight of your being into it.

Orison Swett Marden

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

Orison Swett Marden

The ability to cultivate friends is a powerful aid to success. It is capital which will stand by one when panics come, when banks fail, when business concerns go to the wall.

Orison Swett Marden

The achievements of willpower are almost beyond computation. Scarcely anything seems impossible to the man who can will strongly enough and long enough.

Orison Swett Marden