Orison Swett
Orison Swett
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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.
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Live in the very soul of expectation of better things, in the conviction that something large, grand, and beautiful will await you if your efforts are intelligent, if your mind is kept in a creative condition and you struggle upward to your goal.
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Without continuous effort there cannot be continuous achievement.
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Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
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Aspiration lifts the life; groveling lowers it. When we are striving for excellence in everything we do the entire life grows and expands, but if we allow our standards to drop, there is a natural progression that follows, a tendency for a downward effort in all that we do thereafter.
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To think you can creates the force that can.
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Opportunities? They are all around us. There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Unless generosity of spirit prevails among men, there can never be upon earth an ideal life.