American - Writer | 1850 - 1924
Many a man owes his advancement very largely to his ability to converse well. The ability to interest people in your conversation, to hold them, is a great power.
Orison Swett Marden
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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.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning.
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Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations.
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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.
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Necessity has been a priceless spur which has helped men to perform miracles against incredible odds.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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There is nothing in this world which men desire and struggle for, and that is good for them, of which there is not enough for everybody.
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Unless generosity of spirit prevails among men, there can never be upon earth an ideal life.
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