Agency
“Lose no time; be always employ’d in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.” ~Benjamin Franklin
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Quote To Ponder ~Bishop Richard Cumberland
“It is better to wear out than to rust out.” ~Bishop Richard Cumberland Continue reading
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Opportunity
This I beheld, or dreamed it in a dream:– There spread a cloud of dust along a plain; And underneath the cloud, or in it, raged A furious battle, and men yelled, and swords Shocked upon swords and shields. A prince’s banner Wavered, then staggered backward, hemmed by foes. A craven hung along the battle’s edge,… Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~David O. McKay
“Let us realize that the privilege to work is a gift, that power to work is a blessing, that love of work is success.” ~David O. McKay Continue reading
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Possibilities In Spare Moments
Editor’s Note: This excerpt is from Orison Swett Marden’s 1894, Pushing To The Front, but inspired from an amazing AOM post based on the same chapter. On the floor of the gold-working room, in the United States Mint at Philadelphia, there is a wooden lattice-work which is taken up when the floor is swept, and the… Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Gustave Flaubert
“Be regular and orderly in your daily affairs that you may be violent and original in your work.” ~Gustave Flaubert Continue reading
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Energetic Men
Energetic Men From Readings for Young Men, Merchants, and Men of Business, 1866 Editor’s Note: Originally seen on Art of Manliness We love upright, energetic men. Pull them this way, and then that way, and the other, and they only bend, but never break. Trip them down, and in a trice they are on their… Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Joseph Addison
“Mankind is more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.” ~Joseph Addison Continue reading

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