The Secret Power of Work | Motivational Podcasts

The Secret Power of Work | Motivational Podcasts

Author: The Living Hour October 30, 2025 Duration: 15:05

Listen to episode 1065 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Secret Power of Work. Edited and adapted from a lecture by Swami Vivekananda.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: One of the greatest lessons I have learned in my life is to pay as much attention to the means of work as to its end. It was from a great person that I learned this principle, and their own life was a practical demonstration of it. I have been always learning great lessons from that one principle, and it appears to me that all the secret of success is there: to pay as much attention to the means as to the end.



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