Orison Swett Marden

Superiority – doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.

Orison Swett Marden

Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power.

Orison Swett Marden

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

Orison Swett Marden

The trouble with us is that we generally want more to make us happy than we deserve, and we are not grateful enough for the many things that are ours to enjoy.

Orison Swett Marden

The very habit of expecting that the future is full of good things for you, that you are going to be prosperous and happy, that you are going to have a fine family, a beautiful home, and are going to stand for something, is the best kind of capital with which to start life.

Orison Swett Marden

The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

Orison Swett Marden

The world is a looking-glass which flings back to us the reflection of ourselves. If we laugh it laughs back at us. If we shed tears, it reflects a sorrowful face.

Orison Swett Marden

The world makes way for the man with an idea.

Orison Swett Marden

There is inestimable blessing in a cheerful spirit. When the soul throws its windows wide open, letting in the sunshine, and presenting to all who see it the evidence of its gladness, it is not only happy, but it has an unspeakable power of doing good.

Orison Swett Marden

True economy means the wisest expenditure of what we have, everything considered, looking at it from the broadest standpoint. It is not a good thing to save a nickel at the expenditure of twenty-five cents worth of time.

Orison Swett Marden