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 MardenIt is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.
Orison Swett MardenEvery germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage...true success follows every right step.
Orison Swett MardenWe must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
Orison Swett MardenThe wearer of smiles and the bearer of a kindly disposition needs no introduction, but is welcome anywhere.
Orison Swett MardenIf 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.
Orison Swett Marden