Orison Swett Marden Quotes

It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.

Unless you are prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

We lift ourselves by our thought, we climb upon our vision of ourselves. If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself. Hold the ideal of yourself as you long to be, always, everywhere - your ideal of what you long to attain - the ideal of health, efficiency, success.

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.