Making Yourself, By Orison Swett Marden, published in 1923.

Making Yourself (1923)

Book Facts... Making Yourself

Author:	Orison Swett Marden
Publisher:	Thomas Y. Crowell & Company
Year Published:	1923
Number of Pages:	320
Number of Chapters:	Twenty-Eight
Sub-Title:	None

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Selected Quotes From: Making Yourself

"Concentration is the price of success. Mental and moral atrophy is the penalty of neglect. Th wise man will seek a compromise between the process and the penalty."
"One of the first questions an employer asks an applicant for a position is, �What training, what education have you had?� Between the untrained worker and the skilled artisan there is a great gulf. Education is the one and only bridge across the gulf."
"Just think of the possibilities of the habit of carrying a good book in your pocket for your idle moments, while riding on or waiting for a train or bus. You will be astonished to find, when you form this habit, how many opportunities you have to learn something, to improve yourself."
- Orison Swett Marden

Making Yourself
Chapter Titles Include:

1. Making Yourself
2. The Miracle Of The Spare Moment
3. Sculling Through Life With One Oar
4. Your Improvableness
5. Your Priceless Life Capital
6. Daily Opportunities
7. A College Course At Home
8. The Possibilities In An Hour A Day
9. Poise Is Power
10. They Won By Concentration
11. Good Manners As Assets
12. Conversation, The Art Of Arts
13. Putting The Emphasis On The Wrong Thing
14. Out Of A Job, Not Out Of Work
15. Quitters
16. How To Read
17. What To Read
18. A Library Of My Own
19. Learning To Think And Speak On Your Feet
20. Absorbing Knowledge From Everywhere
21. Asking Questions
22. The Seeing Eye
23. The Habit Of Thoroughness
24. Manhood Stamina
25. The Best Investment
26. Play That Makes Men
27. Keep Growing
28. The Thought Is The Life

Excerpt From the Self-Help Classic... Making Yourself

"�THE MAN WHO has solved the problem of how to make the most of his time has found the way to make the most of himself,� says Walter H. Cottingham.

This is especially true of one�s spare time. There is no other earmark which so truly indicates the quality of a youth as the use he makes of his spare time.

What do you leisure hours and moments mean to you? The value you put upon them and the use you make of them will give one a pretty good line on what you will do with your life.

There is no surer indication of the stuff that wins than a great hunger for growth, for mental enlargement, a passion for self-improvement. When I see a youth with a dead-in-earnest purpose, hungry for knowledge, yearning for growth, one who is always trying to improve himself, always anxious to absorb knowledge from every possible source, I feel sure that he has a bright future. But when on the other hand, I see one careless and indifferent as to whether he learns anything or not, one who does not place any special value upon his leisure time, who is not ambitious to improve himself, to grow mentally, I know that such a youth will never amount to much.

Many young people make the mistake of thinking that their day�s work is the only thing that counts toward their advancement, and that it doesn�t matter much what they do after they are through with their regular work, the thing they are paid for doing. As a matter of fact, insofar as progress in life and self-development are concerned, our evenings and spar moments are even more valuable to us thatn our working days, for, as the great Englishman, Jeremy Taylor, said, �It is what we sow in the minutes and spare portions of a few years that grows up to crowns and scepters.�

There are no unimportant or negligible minutes or hours in time. Every one is as precious as life itself, and the lives of most people are made or marred in their spare time. The difference between using leisure moments wisely in youth and allowing them to go to waste has made all the difference to multitudes of poor boys and girls in after life and becoming somebody of great stature."

- Orison Swett Marden

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