Don't wait for higher position or large salary. Enlarge the position you already occupy; put originality of method into it. Fill it as it never was filled before. Be more prompt, more energetic, more thorough, more polite then your predecessor or fellow workmen. Study your business, device new modes of operation,be able to give your employer points. The art lies not giving satisfaction merely, not simplifying your place, but doing better then was expected, in surprising your employer; and the reward will be a better place and larger salary.
Fidelity to the work OE every-day duties at hand, and a genuine feeling of responsibility to our parents or employers, ourselves, and our God, will eventually bring most of us into the right niches at the proper time.
Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeed, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.
Success is the child of two very plain parents-- punctuality and accuracy. There are critical moments in every successful life when if the mind hesitate or a nerve flinch all will be lost.
Time is money. We shouldn't be stingy or mean with it, but we shouldn't throw away an hour any more than we would throw away a doller bill, waste of time means waste of energy, waste of vitality, waste of character in dissipation. It means the waste of opportunities which will never come back. Beware how you kill time, for all your future lives in it.
No one is anxious about a young man while he is busy in useful work. But where does he eat his lunch at noon? Where does he go when he leaves his boarding-house at night? What does he do after supper? Where does he spend his Sundays and holidays? The way he spend his spare moments revels his character.
Like bees, they extract honey from every circumstances of the day, adds something to their store of useful knowledge or personal power.
The present time is the raw material out of which we make whatever we will. Do not brood over the past, or dream of the future, but seize the instant and get the lesson from the hour.
Prompt decision and whole-souled action sweep the world before them.
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.
"Strick when the iron is hot" and "make hay while the sun shines," are the golden maxims.
"Tomorrow.' It is the devil's motto. All history is strewn with its brilliant victims,the wrecks of half-finished plans and unexecuted resolutions. It is the favourite refuge of sloth and incompetency.
Weak man wait for opportunities, strong man make them.
Open eyes will discover opportunities everywhere; open ears will never fail to detect the crises of those who are perishing for assistance; open hearts will never want for worthy objects upon which to bestow their gifts; open hands will never lack for noble work to do.
It matters not whether the boy is born in a log-cabin or in a mansion; if he is dominated by a resolute purpose and upholds himself, neither men nor demons can keep him down.
Punctuality is the soul of the business, as brevity is of wit.
Talent is power, Tact us skill. Talent knows what to do. Tact knows how to do it.
The worst of a lost hour is not do much in the wasted time as in the wasted power. Idleness rusts the nerves and makes the muscles creak. Work has system, laziness has none.
Every young man should have hobby to occupy his leisure, something useful to which he can turn with delight. It might be in line with his work or otherwise, only his heart must be in.
The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth see no darkness ahead-- no defile that has no outlet-- it forgets that there such thing as failure in the world, and believes that mankind had been waiting all the centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
Brevity is rare gift.
If you want to do substantial work, concentrate; and if you wish to give others the benefit of your work, condense.
Nearly every successful man is accurate and painstaking . Accuracy means character, character is power.
Character has a commercial as well as an ethical value.
Character is the poor man's capital.
Self-confidence indicates reserve power.
Practical man not only sees, but seizes the opportunity.
Culture against ignorance, college against the ranch; and the rench beat every time.
If there is any one power in the world that will make itself felt, it is character.
A barking dog is often more useful then a sleeping lion.
The most fascinating person is always the one of most winning manners, not the one of greatest physical beauty.
"Talent is something, but Tact is everything. It is not a six sense, but is like the life of all the five. It is the open eye, the quick ear,_the judge taste, the keen smell, and lively touch; it is the interpreter of all the riddles, the surmounter of all difficulties, the remover of all obstacles."
These are the notes from 'Pushing to the front' by Orison Swett Marden, but book itself is greate to keep always with you:).
Fidelity to the work OE every-day duties at hand, and a genuine feeling of responsibility to our parents or employers, ourselves, and our God, will eventually bring most of us into the right niches at the proper time.
Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeed, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular channel.
Bees will not sting a man smeared with honey
Success is the child of two very plain parents-- punctuality and accuracy. There are critical moments in every successful life when if the mind hesitate or a nerve flinch all will be lost.
Success is jealous of scatter energies.
A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.
Time is money. We shouldn't be stingy or mean with it, but we shouldn't throw away an hour any more than we would throw away a doller bill, waste of time means waste of energy, waste of vitality, waste of character in dissipation. It means the waste of opportunities which will never come back. Beware how you kill time, for all your future lives in it.
Time-wasters are every where.
No one is anxious about a young man while he is busy in useful work. But where does he eat his lunch at noon? Where does he go when he leaves his boarding-house at night? What does he do after supper? Where does he spend his Sundays and holidays? The way he spend his spare moments revels his character.
Like bees, they extract honey from every circumstances of the day, adds something to their store of useful knowledge or personal power.
The present time is the raw material out of which we make whatever we will. Do not brood over the past, or dream of the future, but seize the instant and get the lesson from the hour.
Prompt decision and whole-souled action sweep the world before them.
Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.
"Strick when the iron is hot" and "make hay while the sun shines," are the golden maxims.
"Tomorrow.' It is the devil's motto. All history is strewn with its brilliant victims,the wrecks of half-finished plans and unexecuted resolutions. It is the favourite refuge of sloth and incompetency.
Weak man wait for opportunities, strong man make them.
Open eyes will discover opportunities everywhere; open ears will never fail to detect the crises of those who are perishing for assistance; open hearts will never want for worthy objects upon which to bestow their gifts; open hands will never lack for noble work to do.
It matters not whether the boy is born in a log-cabin or in a mansion; if he is dominated by a resolute purpose and upholds himself, neither men nor demons can keep him down.
Punctuality is the soul of the business, as brevity is of wit.
Talent is power, Tact us skill. Talent knows what to do. Tact knows how to do it.
The worst of a lost hour is not do much in the wasted time as in the wasted power. Idleness rusts the nerves and makes the muscles creak. Work has system, laziness has none.
Every young man should have hobby to occupy his leisure, something useful to which he can turn with delight. It might be in line with his work or otherwise, only his heart must be in.
The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth see no darkness ahead-- no defile that has no outlet-- it forgets that there such thing as failure in the world, and believes that mankind had been waiting all the centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
Brevity is rare gift.
If you want to do substantial work, concentrate; and if you wish to give others the benefit of your work, condense.
Nearly every successful man is accurate and painstaking . Accuracy means character, character is power.
Character has a commercial as well as an ethical value.
Character is the poor man's capital.
Self-confidence indicates reserve power.
Practical man not only sees, but seizes the opportunity.
Culture against ignorance, college against the ranch; and the rench beat every time.
If there is any one power in the world that will make itself felt, it is character.
A barking dog is often more useful then a sleeping lion.
The most fascinating person is always the one of most winning manners, not the one of greatest physical beauty.
"Talent is something, but Tact is everything. It is not a six sense, but is like the life of all the five. It is the open eye, the quick ear,_the judge taste, the keen smell, and lively touch; it is the interpreter of all the riddles, the surmounter of all difficulties, the remover of all obstacles."
These are the notes from 'Pushing to the front' by Orison Swett Marden, but book itself is greate to keep always with you:).
