Orison Swett
Orison Swett
best passes stamp whatever
Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark.
bestow cries detect discover ears eyes fail hands hearts lack noble objects open work worthy
Open eyes will discover opportunities everywhere; open ears will never fail to detect the cries of those who are perishing for assistance; open hearts will never want for worthy objects upon which to bestow their gifts; open hands will never lack for noble work to do.
assigned beauty best dreaming fling fragrance great life open power time waste
Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.
discover everywhere eye lying observant power waiting
Opportunities? They are all around us. There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
ease effort employers keeps pay sacrifice simple
What keeps so many employers back is simple unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.
calling difference due great men point power rays results together
What a great discrepancy there is between men and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability, and concentrating them upon one point
existence wasted worse worthy
Existence without an aim, without a worthy purpose, is worse than wasted
begin crowded dreaming far grand possibilities work
Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour, which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success, may be crowded with grand possibilities
We are all the products of our own thoughts. Whatever we concentrate upon, that we are.
considers larger low man means merely occupation
Wanted: a man who is larger than his calling, who considers it a low estimate of his occupation to value it merely as a means of getting a living.
among earth ideal life men prevails spirit unless
Unless generosity of spirit prevails among men, there can never be upon earth an ideal life.
desire good men
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.
mind surer
There is no surer token of a little mind than to imagine that anything in the way of physical labor is dishonoring.
congenial doctrine highest source
The true doctrine is that labor - systematic, effective, congenial labor - is not only a necessity, but is the source of the highest enjoyment.