Orison Swett
Orison Swett
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.
existence wasted worse worthy
Existence without an aim, without a worthy purpose, is worse than wasted
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.
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
ability bread chances five flag hand however seize success
With five chances on each hand and one unwavering aim, no boy, however poor, need despair. There is bread and success for every youth under the American flag who has energy and ability to seize his opportunity.
fame greater stand
There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame -- manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does.
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.
successful blow men
The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intense purpose.
hope powerful get-well-soon
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
effort excellence progression
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.
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.
vision want firsts
If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
vision climbs lifts
We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.
heart home power
What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?