Rising in the World, Or Architects of FateCosimo, Inc., 1. 4. 2006 - Počet stran: 552 Nothing is so fascinating to a youth with high purpose, life, and energy throbbing in his young blood as stories of men and women who have brought great things to pass. Those these themes are as old as the human race, yet they are ever new, and more interesting to the young than any fiction." -from the Author's PrefaceAn exceptional bestseller when it was first published in 1895 and greatly anticipated by the general public following the author's success with his runaway hit, Pushing to the Front, Vols. 1 & 2, this is a classic of personal motivation that remains startlingly relevant today. For those who aim through concrete example to live the "higher life," this captivating volume includes: Dare! The Will and The Way Success Under Difficulties Uses of Obstacles One Unwavering Aim Clear Grit Wealth in Economy Opportunities Where You Are Vocations, Good and Bad Power of the Mind over the Body The Curse of Idleness and much more.ALSO AVAILABLE FROM COSIMO CLASSICS: Marden's Cheerfulness as a Life Power, Pushing to the Front Vols. 1 & 2. |
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... everything . II . DARE 10 Dare to live thy creed . Conquer your place in the world . All things serve a brave soul . III . THE WILL AND THE WAY . 38 Find a way or make one . Everything is either pusher or pushed . The world always ...
... everything . II . DARE 10 Dare to live thy creed . Conquer your place in the world . All things serve a brave soul . III . THE WILL AND THE WAY . 38 Find a way or make one . Everything is either pusher or pushed . The world always ...
Strana 26
... everything must conform , or be ostracized . Who dares conduct his household or business affairs in his own way , and snap his fingers at Dame Grundy ? Many a man has marched up to the cannon's mouth in battle who dared not face public ...
... everything must conform , or be ostracized . Who dares conduct his household or business affairs in his own way , and snap his fingers at Dame Grundy ? Many a man has marched up to the cannon's mouth in battle who dared not face public ...
Strana 38
... stars from the sky , as bring the ocean to the wall of Leyden for your relief , " was the derisive shout of the Span- WALTER SCOTT " The Wizard of the North . " THE WILL AND THE WAY Find a way or make one Everything is either pusher.
... stars from the sky , as bring the ocean to the wall of Leyden for your relief , " was the derisive shout of the Span- WALTER SCOTT " The Wizard of the North . " THE WILL AND THE WAY Find a way or make one Everything is either pusher.
Strana 46
... everything which can help him to get on in the world , who seizes every experience in life and grinds it up into paint for his great life's pic- ture , who keeps his heart open that he may catch every noble impulse , and everything ...
... everything which can help him to get on in the world , who seizes every experience in life and grinds it up into paint for his great life's pic- ture , who keeps his heart open that he may catch every noble impulse , and everything ...
Strana 52
... Everything he touched prospered . In 1780 , he resumed the New Orleans and St. Domingo trade , in which he had been engaged at the breaking out of the Revolution . Here great success again attended him . He had two vessels lying in one ...
... Everything he touched prospered . In 1780 , he resumed the New Orleans and St. Domingo trade , in which he had been engaged at the breaking out of the Revolution . Here great success again attended him . He had two vessels lying in one ...
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ONE UNWAVERING AIM | 107 |
SOWING AND REAPING | 125 |
What is put into the first of life is put into the whole of life | 141 |
OPPORTUNITIES WHERE YOU ARE | 256 |
THE MIGHT OF LITTLE THINGS | 268 |
SELFMASTERY | 288 |
NATURES LITTLE BILL | 306 |
VOCATIONS GOOD ANd Bad | 327 |
THE MAN WITH AN IDEA | 343 |
DECISION | 358 |
POWER OF THE MIND OVER THE BODY | 370 |
SELFHELP | 145 |
WORK AND WAIT | 167 |
CLEAR GRIT | 186 |
THE GRANDEST THING IN THE WORLD | 202 |
WEALTH IN ECONOMY | 227 |
Hunger rags cold hard work contempt suspicion unjust | 238 |
THE CHARITIES | 390 |
THE CURSE OF IDLENESS | 410 |
OUR SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLMASTERS | 421 |
BOOKS | 430 |
EVERY MAN HIS OWN PARADISE | 448 |
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asked battle beauty become blood body brain brave called Carter Harrison chance character CLEAR GRIT courage dare death disease dollars Emerson everything eyes faculties father fear fire Florence Nightingale forever fortune genius GEORGE ELIOT give Goethe greatest grit habit hand happiness heart heaven Henry Fawcett Hugh Miller human Humphry Davy hundred idea idle JOHN RUSKIN Julius Cæsar labor Lincoln live look Lord Cavanagh lost manhood master ment mind moral Napoleon nature ness never night noble occupation once passion physician poor poverty replied rich RICHARD ARKWRIGHT ruined says Shakespeare slave sleep Socrates soldier soul stand struggle success tell things thou thought thousand tion told truth turned Victor Hugo wait WASHINGTON IRVING weak wonder word wrote young youth
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Strana 123 - Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established.
Strana 4 - ... whose mind is stored with a knowledge of the great and fundamental truths of Nature and of the laws of her operations; one who, no stunted ascetic, is full of life and fire, but whose passions are trained to come to heel by a vigorous will, the servant of a tender conscience; who has learned to love all beauty, whether of Nature or of art, to hate all vileness, and to respect others as himself.
Strana 213 - The secretary stood alone. Modern degeneracy had not reached him. Original and unaccommodating, the features of his character had the hardihood of antiquity. His august mind overawed majesty, and one of his sovereigns thought royalty so impaired in his presence that he conspired to remove him, in order to be relieved from his superiority.
Strana 98 - I do not see how any man can afford, for the sake of his nerves and his nap, to spare any action in which he can partake.
Strana 465 - Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own : He who, secure within, can say, To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Strana 188 - he said, ' on that side are toil, hunger, nakedness, the drenching storm, desertion, and death; on this side, ease and pleasure. There lies Peru with its riches; here Panama and its poverty. Choose, each man, what best becomes a brave Castilian. For my part, I go to the south.
Strana 265 - Treason, treason!" echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not for an instant, but, taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he added " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
Strana 98 - The gods, in bounty, work up storms about us, That give mankind occasion to exert Their hidden strength, and throw out into practice Virtues, which shun the day, and lie conceal'd In the smooth seasons and the calms of life.