If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser. Orison Swett Marden Read Quote
Just try the effect of putting beauty into your life, a little every day. You will find it magical. It will broaden and light up your outlook upon the world as the acquisition of money or fame never can. Orison Swett Marden Read Quote
Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns. Orison Swett Marden Read Quote
He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning. Orison Swett Marden Read Quote
Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations. Orison Swett Marden Read Quote
It pays to cultivate popularity. It doubles success possibilities, develops manhood, and builds up character. Orison Swett Marden Read Quote
The ability to cultivate friends is a powerful aid to success. It is capital which will stand by one when panics come, when banks fail, when business concerns go to the wall. Orison Swett Marden Read Quote
There is not a single indication in man’s wonderful mechanism that he was created for a life of poverty. There is something larger and grander for him in the divine plan than perpetual slavery to the bread-winning problem. Orison Swett Marden Read Quote
The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment. Orison Swett Marden Read Quote
Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal. Orison Swett Marden Read Quote