Orison Swett
Orison Swett
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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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Strength of will is the test of a young man's possibilities. Can he will strong enough and hold whatever he undertakes with an iron grip?
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Whatever you do, don't discourage your dreaming propensity. Your heart's desires are not empty vaporings. They foreshadow possible realities. Man was made to aspire, to look upward.
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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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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
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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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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
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There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame -- manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does.
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No man fails who does his best.
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The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.
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.