A great many young men try to justify themselves and check inward protests by the perpetual self-suggestion that it is better to keep on, for the present, in questionable occupations, because the great financial reward will put them in position to do better later. This is a sort of sedative to the conscience to keep it quiet until they can afford to listen to it.
Orison Swett MardenTag: mental-attitude
Personal nobility is greater than any calling, or any reward that it can bring.
Orison Swett MardenTag: motivational mental-attitude
Real happiness cannot be bribed by anything sordid or low.
Orison Swett MardenTag: motivational happiness
The highest happiness is the feeling of wellbeing which comes to one who is actively employed in doing what he was made to do; carrying out the great life-purpose patterned in his individual bent.
Orison Swett MardenLike the sun, love radiates and warms into life all that it touches.
Orison Swett MardenTag: love
The college diploma has no more power to hold the knowledge you have gained in college than a piece of tissue paper over a gas jet can hold the gas in the pipe.
Orison Swett MardenTag: life education college diplima
You cannot look into a cradle and read the secret message traced by a divine hand and wrapped up in that bit of clay, and more than you can see the North Star in the magnetic needle. God has loaded the needle of that young life so it will point to the star which presides over poetry, art, law, medicine, or whatever your own pet calling is, until you have wasted years precious life, yet, when once free, the needle flies back to its own star.
Orison Swett MardenTag: life success purpose inspiration
No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive, he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.
Orison Swett MardenTag: life success inspiration motivation
Don't try to justify yourself on the ground that somebody must do this kind of work. Let "somebody," not yourself, take the responsibility ... Many a man has dwarfed his manhood, cramped his intellect, crushed his aspiration, blunted his finer sensibilities, in some mean, narrow occupation because there was money in it.
Orison Swett MardenTag: purpose aspiration industry motivaition
You will find the whole world will change to you when you change your attitude toward it.
Orison Swett MardenTag: life inspiration perspective world
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