How to Succeed: Or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune by Orison Swett Marden

Author:Orison Swett Marden [Marden, Orison Swett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-10-02T00:00:00+00:00

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We call the large majority of human lives obscure. Presumptuous that we are! How know we what lives a single thought retained from the dust of nameless graves may have lighted to renown?

Courage

Quit yourselves like men.

—1 Samuel iv. 9

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Cowards have no luck.

—Elizabeth Kulman.

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He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

—Emerson.

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To dare is better than to doubt,

For doubt is always grieving;

'Tis faith that finds the riddles out;

The prize is for believing.

—Henry Burton.

—Walk

Boldly and wisely in that light thou hast;

There is a hand above will help thee on.

—Bailey's Festus.

"Have hope! Though clouds environ now,

And gladness hides her face in scorn,

Put thou the shadow from thy brow—

No night but hath its morn."

"Our enemies are before us," exclaimed the Spartans at Thermopylæ. "And we are before them," was the cool reply of Leonidas. "Deliver your arms," came the message from Xerxes. "Come and take them," was the answer Leonidas sent back. A Persian soldier said: "You will not be able to see the sun for flying javelins and arrows." "Then we will fight in the shade," replied a Lacedemonian. What wonder that a handful of such men checked the march of the greatest host that ever trod the earth.

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