Orison Swett Marden

There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.

Orison Swett Marden

There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.

Orison Swett Marden

To think you can creates the force that can.

Orison Swett Marden

We are all the products of our own thoughts. Whatever we concentrate upon, that we are.

Orison Swett Marden

We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

Orison Swett Marden

We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.

Orison Swett Marden

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

Orison Swett Marden

What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

Orison Swett Marden

What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.

Orison Swett Marden

Whatever comes to us in life we create first in our mentality. As the building is a reality in all its details in the architects mind before a stone or brick is laid, so we create mentally everything which later becomes a reality in our achievement.

Orison Swett Marden