Orison Swett Marden

The punishment for bad manners is as certain as the punishment for crime. By common consent, society banishes the bad-mannered.

Orison Swett Marden

The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.

Orison Swett Marden

The tonic of success is a marvelous producer as well as stimulant. By the law of mental magnetism one success attracts another, and after we begin to win it is comparatively easy to keep on winning.

Orison Swett Marden

The trouble with us is that we expect too much from the great happenings, the unusual things, and we overlook the common flowers on the path of life, from which we might abstract sweets, comforts, delights.

Orison Swett Marden

The true doctrine is that labor – systematic, effective, congenial labor – is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.

Orison Swett Marden

The universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

Orison Swett Marden

The wearer of smiles and the bearer of a kindly disposition needs no introduction, but is welcome anywhere.

Orison Swett Marden

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

Orison Swett Marden

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 slavery to the bread-winning problem.

Orison Swett Marden

There is nothing in this world which men desire and struggle for, and that is good for them, of which there is not enough for everybody.

Orison Swett Marden