Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.
Orison Swett Marden
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Orison Swett Marden
Age: 75 †
Born: 1848
Born: June 11
Died: 1924
Died: March 10
Author
Medical Writer
Philosopher
Physician Writer
Poet Lawyer
Writer
New Hampshire
United States
O. Swett Marden
Joy
Talk
Happiness
Without
Enough
World
Woe
Laughter
More quotes by Orison Swett Marden
Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
Orison Swett Marden
Many mothers make the mistake of forever looking for the bad in the child, trying to . . . uproot and drive it out. This is like trying to eject the darkness from a room without opening the shutters and letting in the light. As John Newton said, 'I cannot sweep the darkness out, but I can shine it out.'
Orison Swett Marden
The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within of us so weak and intermittent that it makes no impression upon the creative energies it lacks the force that transmutes desires into realities.
Orison Swett Marden
The mill cannot grind with the water that has passed.
Orison Swett Marden
To have done no man a wrong...to walk and live, unseduced, within arm's length of what is not your own, with nothing between your desire and its gratification but the invisible law of rectitude-this is to be a man.
Orison Swett Marden
Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young.
Orison Swett Marden
The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.
Orison Swett Marden
Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.
Orison Swett Marden
The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
Orison Swett Marden
It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
Orison Swett Marden
The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
Orison Swett Marden
The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'
Orison Swett Marden
There is no stimulus like that which comes from the consciousness of knowing that others believe in us.
Orison Swett Marden
There is a legend that when God was equipping man for his long life journey of exploration, the attendant good angel was about to add the gift of contentment and complete satisfaction. The Creator stayed his hand and said, 'No, if you bestow that upon him you will rob him forever of all joy of self-discovery.'
Orison Swett Marden
It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.
Orison Swett Marden
Paradise is here or nowhere: you must take your joy with you or you will never find it.
Orison Swett Marden
As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly he is not a failure
Orison Swett Marden
The man who has not learned the secret of taking the drudgery out of his task by flinging his whole soul into it, has not learned the first principles of success or happiness.
Orison Swett Marden
Every one who has labored honestly in the past has aided to place knowledge and comfort within the reach of a constantly increasing number.
Orison Swett Marden
There is no law by which one can, as long as he thinks he can't.
Orison Swett Marden
