How to Succeed: Or, Stepping Stones to Fame and FortuneExecute your resolutions immediately. Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried. Does competition trouble you? work away; what is your competitor but a man? Conquer your place in the world, for all things serve a brave soul. Combat difficulty manfully; sustain misfortune bravely; endure poverty nobly; encounter disappointment courageously. The influence of the brave man is a magnetism which creates an epidemic of noble zeal in all about him. Every day sends to the grave obscure men, who have only remained in obscurity because their timidity has prevented them from making a first effo. |
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| Title | How to Succeed: Or, Stepping Stones to Fame and Fortune The Christian herald library |
| Author | Orison Swett Marden |
| Publisher | Christian herald, 1896 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 22 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 1597344451, 9781597344456 |
| Length | 332 pages |
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