Orison Swett
Orison Swett
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
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.
existence wasted worse worthy
Existence without an aim, without a worthy purpose, is worse than wasted
humble opportunity simple
It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.
optimism tears done
Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.
humble ambition character
The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities. She will strip us of wealth, humble our pride, humiliate our ambition, let us down from the ladder of fame, will discipline us in a thousand ways, if she can develop a little character. Everything must give way to that. Wealth is nothing, position is nothing, fame is nothing, manhood is everything.
procrastination rocks sea
A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to the sea, but waits for the sea to come to him. If it does not come, he remains where he is and dies, although the slightest effort would enable him to reach the waves, which are perhaps within a yard of him. The world is full of human lobsters; people stranded on the rocks of indecision and procrastination, who, instead of putting forth their own energies, are waiting for some grand billow of good fortune to set them afloat.
excellence common wells
Doing common things uncommonly well.
excellence littles can-do
Superiority - doing things a little better than anybody else can do them.
grieving sorrow trials
Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
pay-the-price pay corners
No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
sight purpose world
There's no grander sight in the world than that of a person fired with a great purpose, dominated by one unwavering aim.
being-happy cheer sunshine
There is no investment you can make which will pay you so well as the effort to scatter sunshine and good cheer through your establishment.
manhood
How can I develop myself into the grandest possible manhood?