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Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while.

Grenville Kleiser

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Grenville Kleiser
Age: 67 †
Born: 1868
Born: January 1
Died: 1935
Died: January 1
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Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life.
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It is by translating your fine sense of aspiration into actual lofty deeds that you grow toward your ideal. Link your lofty thoughts to earnest, active effort, and good results will inevitably follow. The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.
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You grow your best thoughts in silence, solitude, and meditation. When you relax and think deeply, you are giving your inmost powers their best opportunity to disclose themselves.
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Life does not stand still. Where there is no progress, there is disintegration.
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Life is so great in its opportunities and possibilities, that you should rise confidently above the inevitable trifles incident to daily contact with the world. Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential and transient. . . . Ignore the inconsequential.
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Those who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced ...the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose.
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Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking.
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Thought rules mankind.
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Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of some less fortunate fellow traveler. Today you can make your life . . . significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with it as you will.
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A ton of regret never makes an ounce of difference.
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Most men have worried about things which never happened, and more men have been killed by worry than by hard work.
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There is honor in labor. Work is the medicine of the soul. It is more: it is your very life, without which you would amount to little.
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You are already of consequence in the world if you are known as a man of strict integrity.
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Vigilantly guard your mind against erroneous and destructive thought as you would guard your house against burglars and assassins.
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This is the time to speak the word of appreciation.
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Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.
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It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.
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Make your judgment trustworthy by trusting it. Cultivate regular periods of silence and meditation. The best time to build judgment is in solitude, when you can think out things for yourself without the probability of interruption.
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To every problem there is already a solution whether you know it or not.
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Discreetly keep most of your radical opinions to yourself. When with people be a listener a large part of the time. Be considerate in every word and act, and resist the tendency to say clever things. The best evidence of your culture is the tone and temper of your conversation.
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