Everybody Ahead: Or, Getting the Most Out of LifeF. E. Morrison, 1916 - 535 páginas |
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... push their way through the solid steel plates as quietly and easily as a cook pushes her fingers through a piece of soft dough . There was not a • quiver or a shake in any part of the [ 3 ] GETTING THE MOST OUT OF LIFE.
... push their way through the solid steel plates as quietly and easily as a cook pushes her fingers through a piece of soft dough . There was not a • quiver or a shake in any part of the [ 3 ] GETTING THE MOST OUT OF LIFE.
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... . No matter how handicapped you may be , you are the controller of your own forces , and you may make them friends to push you along or enemies to drag you back . You are the captain of [ 37 ] GETTING THE MOST OUT OF LIFE.
... . No matter how handicapped you may be , you are the controller of your own forces , and you may make them friends to push you along or enemies to drag you back . You are the captain of [ 37 ] GETTING THE MOST OUT OF LIFE.
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... thousands of years of civilization , the inventions and discov- eries of millions of people who preceded you . They lifted civilization up to where you found it . What did it mean to you ? Did you push [ 42 ] EVERYBODY AHEAD , OR III.
... thousands of years of civilization , the inventions and discov- eries of millions of people who preceded you . They lifted civilization up to where you found it . What did it mean to you ? Did you push [ 42 ] EVERYBODY AHEAD , OR III.
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... push it along a little further ? Did you appreciate all you owed to those who had gone before you , all that they had done in making your life so much easier and pleasanter than theirs had been ; in passing up to you all the accumulated ...
... push it along a little further ? Did you appreciate all you owed to those who had gone before you , all that they had done in making your life so much easier and pleasanter than theirs had been ; in passing up to you all the accumulated ...
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... push myself aggressively as those about me do . I shrink from mingling with people . I shrink from responsibility , from everything which brings me into observation , which makes me the target of others ' eyes . I am so sensitive of ...
... push myself aggressively as those about me do . I shrink from mingling with people . I shrink from responsibility , from everything which brings me into observation , which makes me the target of others ' eyes . I am so sensitive of ...
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Everybody Ahead: Or, Getting the Most Out of Life Orison Swett Marden Sin vista previa disponible - 2015 |
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Términos y frases comunes
ability achievement ambition asked become better brain career cere chance character cheerful clear grit constantly courage defeat Demosthenes develop discouraged dollars efficiency effort employees enemies enthusiasm everything face faculties failure fear feel force friends girl give grit habit happiness Helen Keller hold honesty human ideal John Wanamaker keep keep up appearances lack lionaire lives look Madame de Staël manner matter means ment mental mind motto nature ness never one's opportunity ORISON SWETT MARDEN ourselves person Phillips Brooks physical poor posi position possible push realize Samuel Smiles self-confidence sorts soul stand success superb talk telephone desk Theodore Roosevelt things thought thousand thrift timid tion to-day tonic tremendous trouble trying vigorous weak whole woman women words worry worth young youth
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Página 271 - If a m'an can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Página 223 - Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, • And breasts the blows of circumstance. And grapples with his evil star ; Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys. To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne ; And moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope...
Página 360 - Somebody said that it couldn't be done, But he with a chuckle replied That " maybe it couldn't," but he would be one Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a grin On his face. If he worried he hid it. He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done, and he did it. Somebody scoffed: "Oh, you'll never do that; At least no one ever has done it...
Página 226 - Give a boy address and accomplishments, and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes. He has not the trouble of earning or owning them; they solicit him to enter and possess.
Página 293 - If this life be not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight, — as if there were something really wild in the universe which we, with all our idealities and faithfulnesses, are needed to redeem ; and first of all to redeem our own hearts from atheisms and fears.
Página 375 - Well! he may not count it, and a kind Heaven may not count it; but it is being counted none the less. Down among his nerve-cells and fibres the molecules are counting it, registering and storing it up to be used against him when the next temptation comes.
Página 463 - Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not ; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned ; and, however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.
Página 217 - As well," shouted the Spaniards, derisively, to the citizens, " as well can the Prince of Orange pluck the stars from the sky as bring the ocean to the walls of Leyden for your relief.
Página 372 - Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain. It is not in the moment of their forming, but in the moment of their producing motor effects, that resolves and aspirations communicate the new " set
Página 372 - The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy. It is to fund and capitalize our acquisitions, and live at ease upon the interest of the fund. For this we must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can, and guard against the growing into ways that are likely to be disadvantageous to us, as we should guard against the plague.