Self-Respect for a Joyful Life | Happiness Podcasts
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Listen to episode 594 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Self-Respect for a Joyful Life. Edited and adapted from You Can, But Will You? By Orison Swett Marden.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: At the very outset of your professional life, you can make no better resolution than that, whatever happens, you will stand well with yourself, that you will never forfeit your self-respect, never besmirch your honor by perverting your divine nature to do mean, low, dishonorable things. If you firmly resolve that you will always have the good opinion of at least one person in the world (yourself), no one, no conditions or circumstances, can cheat you out of an honorable career, an honorable life.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an ad by BetterHelp. |
| 0:02.0 | What comes to mind when you hear the word gratitude? |
| 0:05.0 | Maybe it's a daily practice, or maybe it feels hard to be grateful right now. |
| 0:09.0 | Don't forget to give yourself some thanks by investing in your well-being. |
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| 0:21.7 | Let the gratitude flow. |
| 0:23.3 | Visit BetterHelphelp.com slash new direction today to get 10% of your first month. Welcome to the Inspirational Living Podcast. |
| 0:45.5 | Get the best of our podcast in book form by visiting inspirational life lessons.com. |
| 0:53.3 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from |
| 0:56.4 | You Can, but Will You? |
| 0:59.2 | By Orison Sweat Martin, published in 1920. |
| 1:07.2 | Albert Hubbard said that one, great, strong, unselfish soul in every community, would |
| 1:15.9 | actually redeem the world. |
| 1:18.6 | He was right. |
| 1:20.6 | Character carries weight. |
| 1:23.1 | It forces people to look behind a homely face, behind poverty, behind environment. |
| 1:30.3 | When character speaks, money and everything else is silent. |
| 1:36.3 | No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. |
| 1:52.0 | Though you may have millions, if you don't stand well with yourself, if you have lost your self-respect, your honor, your integrity, and in the process of making |
| 2:05.4 | your fortune, you are a failure. |
| 2:09.5 | You have cheated yourself out of an honorable career. |
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