Orison Swett Marden Quotes

Produce great men, the rest follows.

Great men grow.

Great men exist that there might be greater men.

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

I don't want to just be the best player. I want to be a great person, too.

You could be great, you know, it’s all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that.

Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.

Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential.

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

I'd say Harvard graduates leave here with a sense of the possible and the limit - and a sense that there are no limits to what humans can do and that you can always be pushing, whatever limit you think might be there.

I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world.

In vain we build the city if we do not first build the man

One who aspires to greatness should read and study, pursuing the True Way with such a firm resolve that he is perfectly straightforward and open, rises above the superficialities of conventional behavior, and refuses to be satisfied with the petty or commonplace.

It is a very poor thing, whether for nations or individuals, to advance the history of great deeds done in the past as an excuse for doing poorly in the present; but it is an excellent thing to study the history of the great deeds of the past, and of the great men who did them, with an earnest desire to profit thereby so as to render better service in the present.

I want it to be the greatest thing I ever do: make good humans.

The thing I like about college football so much is you can affect these guys a lot more when they are 18-22, 23 years old in terms of people and having a chance to be more successful. They are still a value type development, where you have a chance to help them mature a bit and help them be a little more successful in life.

I have developed as a player but also as a human being.

I've learned so much at PSV, not only on the pitch but also as a person.

At the end of the day, the great ones - well, they rise, and that's what I want to do.

It's never too late to be great.