The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.
Interpretation
Success comes to those who approach their work with a calm focus and clear objectives.
Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote emphasizes the importance of maintaining a serene attitude while working towards significant goals. It suggests that the essence of a productive day lies in one's mindset and intentions, advocating that a tranquil approach combined with ambitious aspirations leads to true accomplishments.
In practice
In a motivational speech at a corporate event.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
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Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
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Twenty-six miles is now my daily minimum.
Sometimes when you are the closest to your breakthrough the pressure is the greatest. You have come too far to give up now!
If you want to get in shape, go to the #β gym every single day, change your clothes and take a shower. If you can do that every single day for a month, pretty soon you'll start doing something while you're there.
The beautiful thing about setbacks is they introduce us to our strengths.
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