Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a torch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness, you'll upgrade it, you'll fill it with prestige and power.
- Topic: Enthusiasm, Love, Service, Work
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No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
It is of particular value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.
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Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm!
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander.
When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.
Never be bored, and you will never be boring.
Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity and the laggards who put in just enough to get by.
Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.
One beautiful heart is better than a thousand beautiful faces.
From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.
Love is reflected in love.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.
We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts.
False leaders rarely engage succession planning for fear of no longer being seen as the leader.
There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.
Statism needs war; a free country does not. Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by producing.
