Quotes by Orison Swett Marden

Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young.  A good laugh makes better friends with ourselves and everybody around.

There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.

Your expectation opens or closes the doors of your supply. If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.

If we put the emphasis upon the right things. If we live the life that is worth while, and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could throw us off our center, so that no matter what misfortune should overtake us, there would still be a whole magnificent man or woman left after being stripped of everything else.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

What we sincerely believe regarding ourselves is true for us.

Our trials, our sorrows, and our griefs develop us. . . .

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.