A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us.

- Orison S. Marden

Work kills no one, but worry has killed multitudes… Worry not only saps vitality and wastes energy, but it also seriously affects the quality of one'…

- Orison S. Marden

The moment a man ceases to progress, to grow higher, wider and deeper, then his life becomes stagnant.

- Orison S. Marden

It is a psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind; that is, we must register a…

- Orison S. Marden

The size and quality of your achievement will depend largely upon what sort of image you have of yourself at your best.

- Orison S. Marden

The ability to talk well is to a man what cutting and polishing are to the rough diamond. The grinding does not add anything to the diamond. It merel…

- Orison S. Marden

It is the direct man who strikes sledgehammer blows, who penetrates the very marrow of a subject at every stroke and gets the meat out of a propositi…

- Orison S. Marden

Real happiness is so simple that most people do not recognize it. They think it comes from doing something on a big scale, from a big fortune, or fr…

- Orison S. Marden

The strong man, the positive, decisive man who has a program and is determined to carry it out, cuts his way to his goal regardless of difficulties. …

- Orison S. Marden