Orison Swett Marden

Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made.

Orison Swett Marden

Fortune always smiles on those who roll up their sleeves and put their shoulders to the wheel.

Orison Swett Marden

Fun is the cheapest and best medicine in the world for your children as well as for yourself. Give it to them in good large doses. It will not only save you doctors’ bills, but it will also help to make your children happier, and will improve their chances in life.

Orison Swett Marden

Genius, that power which dazzles mortal eyes, Is oft but perseverance in disguise.

Orison Swett Marden

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

Orison Swett Marden

If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can’t.

Orison Swett Marden

If you would make the most of yourself, cut away all of your vitality sappers; get rid of everything which hampers you and holds you back, everything which wastes your energy, cuts down your working capital. Get freedom at any cost.

Orison Swett Marden

If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.

Orison Swett Marden

In order to keep himself at the top of his condition, to obtain complete mastery of all his powers and possibilities, a man must be good to himself mentally; he must think well of himself.

Orison Swett Marden

It is human nature to help a man along the way he is going; if he is going up, the world will boost him; if he is going down, the world will kick him. If a man lacks faith in himself, the world will lack faith in him also.

Orison Swett Marden