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Success (1897)
Book Facts... Success
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Author: |
Orison
Swett Marden |
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Publisher: |
W.A. Wilde Company |
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Year
Published: |
1897 |
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Number
of Pages: |
338 |
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Number
of Chapters: |
Thirteen |
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Sub-Title: |
A Book Of Ideals, Helps, And Examples For All Desiring To Make The Most Of Life |
Read on and learn more about this great classic:
Selected Quotes From: Success
| "Well has it been said that a vain man’s motto is, ‘Win Gold and wear it’; a generous man’s, ‘Win gold and share it’; a miser’s, ‘Win gold and spare it’; a profligate’s, ‘Win gold and spend it’; a broker’s, ‘Win gold and lend it’; a gambler’s or a fool’s, ‘Win gold and lose it’; but the wise man’s, ‘Win gold and use it.’"
"The timid and hesitating find everything impossible, chiefly because it seems so. A man who can resolve vigorously upon a course of action, and turns neither to the right nor to the left, despite any temptation, is almost sure of success."
"Those who make the great failures in life are the aimless, the purposeless, the indifferent, the blundering, the shiftless, the half-hearted."
- Orison Swett Marden |
Success
Chapter Titles Include:
1. Enthusiasm
2. Education Under Difficulties
3. The Game Of The World
4. Misfit Occupations
5. Doing Everything To A Finish
6. Help Yourself Society
7. I Will
8. Conduct As A Fine Art
9. Character-Building
10. Medicine For The Mind
11. This One Thing I Do
12. I Had A Friend
13. Ideals
Preface to the Self-Help Classic... Success
| "NEARLY EVERY YOUTH is ambitious to succeed in something. For success, heads ache, hearts pant, and hands work, everywhere and always. Whatever may be the motive or ideal, whether high or low, good or bad, the watchword and the goal are usually the same – Success.
But very few people are so constituted that they can overcome adverse circumstances without a spur of some kind, and in this volume the author has endeavored to furnish incentives to higher ideals and nobler ambitions. He has aimed to teach his lessons, as far as possible, by entertaining concrete examples. He believes that whoever would help the average youth must first interest him.
Yet the energy of the least ambitious youth is only latent. There is gunpowder enough in most anyone if we can only get the spark to it. To do this is the work of every true teacher.
The ambitious youth of today is eager for every bit of information, every suggestion or hint that will help him get on in the world, - that will teach him how he may acquire wealth or power. He does not care so much to know how genius succeeds, as how common, everyday people like himself have won the prizes of life.
The author has aimed to meet this demand on the part of young readers. He has tried to fill the book with suggestive material, with fresh, living truths; to make it a storehouse of incentives, a treasury of precious sayings; to put inspiration, encouragement, and helpfulness on every page; to drive his lesson home with such an abundance of telling illustrations drawn from actual experience that the reader will exclaim; ‘Why, these people were worse handicapped than I am! They succeeded; - why not I?’
But in and through and over all, the one great lesson he has tried to impress upon the reader is that manhood and womanhood are above all riches and superior to all titles, - that character is greater than any career.
‘Everything wise has already been thought out,’ says a German writer; ‘one can only try to think it once more.’ Believing that this is largely true, the author makes no claim to originality except in his method. So far as his materials are concerned, he has culled flowers from many thought-gardens, and collected incidents from many typical lives."
- Orison Swett Marden |
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