Orison Swett Marden Quotes

Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

I feel like with everything you do, everything you make, everything you experience, y'know, even the dumb stuff that you don't even really pay much attention to, like the mundane stuff that happens to you every day, it shapes the person who you are.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.

Everyone is the sum total of past experiences. A character doesn't just spring to life at age thirty.

I don't really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and it's all I knew. It made me who I am - all the good and bad - and it's where all of the songs on Here For The Party came from. I've lived them all.

Nobody wants to get rid of their life experiences - you are who you are because of them, no matter if they're good or bad.

I think you are a product of the environment you surround yourself in, and everything you've experienced is a part of you and the fabric you are in.

Whatever helps to shape the human being - to make the individual what he is, or hinder him from being what he is not - is part of his education.

We are the sum of who we are. We pick certain things at certain moments that influenced us.

No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are.

He is a man, who is to be a man, the fruit is always present in the seed.

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

I personally don't believe people really grow. They just learn stuff when they were a kid, and hold on to it, and that affects every relationship they have.

We go through our careers and things happen to us. Those experiences made me what I am.

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

The roles that have come into my life have taught me - and in that time period maybe I didn't even know it, but whatever came up or whatever it is that you have to express at that time, has benefitted me in a particular way.

The old man, of whom we know how he has become what he is, is more of an individual than the young man; for it is only in the course of an eventful life that men are differentiated into full individuality.

It has been an interesting road, but I wouldn't trade any of it for the world, because I feel like all of those instances in my life I felt molded me and strengthened me and made me who I am.

Our parents have, by far, the greatest influence on shaping who we are and how we deal with the world.

I think to try to understand human behavior and why people do what they do, and what in their lives have shaped them and impacted them to be who they are, it's something. I mean, that's my entire life.

I've had a very specific path over the years. Sometimes they're not all we want them to be, but they create who we are.

I feel offended when people bring up my four marriages. I was 19 when I first got married and I thought it would be for ever. But each of my marriages has added to my life and helped form me as a human being.

I have a fairly pragmatic view on all those bullies that came before, because everybody makes you who you are now.

You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.