Orison Swett
Orison Swett
nature attitude enjoy-life
You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.
commitment weight resolve
Resolve that whatever you do, you will bring the whole man to it; that you will fling the whole weight of your being into it.
opportunity mind clients
The lack of opportunity is ever the excuse of a weak, vacillating mind. Opportunities! Every life is full of them. Every newspaper article is an opportunity. Every client is an opportunity. Every sermon is an opportunity. Every business transaction is an opportunity, an opportunity to be polite, an opportunity to be manly, an opportunity to be honest, an opportunity to make friends.
kindness heart sunshine
Let us open up our natures, throw wide the doors of our hearts and let in the sunshine of good will and kindness.
confidence perseverance believe
There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.
confidence battle half
There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
opportunity looks bigger
Opportunity always looks bigger going than coming.
life nature men
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
motivational-business golden-rule daily-business
Put yourself in your customer's place.
water grind mills
The mill cannot grind with the water that has passed.
confidence courage fear
Be larger than your task.
determination careers community
Who would have ever heard of Theodore Roosevelt outside of his immediate community if he had only half committed himself? The great secret of his career was that he has flung his whole life with all the determination and energy he could muster.
motivational careers new-job
Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
commitment reality creative
The greatest trouble with most of us is that our demands upon ourselves are so feeble, the call upon the great within of us so weak and intermittent that it makes no impression upon the creative energies; it lacks the force that transmutes desires into realities.