The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-01
new YEAR NOTICES
Points About Success From the Utter
ances of Great Men.
Here VIII Be Found Much That VIII
Tend to Help Every Aspiring
Young Man in Fighting the
Battle of Life.

Undoubtedly a great many who read
this have determined whether by for
NAL RESTITUTION or not to try TO make
1896 the most successful year of theiI
lives. To these a few of the notices
and sayings of successful men, togeth-
ed with here and there an anecdote
showing how they put their notions
into practice, may possibly be helpful.
II read Alright, much that follows will
show that one essential feature of sue
cess Is hard work. Genius may be
necessary for the highest success, but
given ordinary intelligence no one need
fail who is willing to exert himself
continuously. But there must be mental
toll as well as physical The day la
borer VINO is satisfied to exert his mus
Giles only viii never rise above day
wages. The clerk who is satisfied to do
his work perfunctor1ly without exert
ing his mental powers in striving to
become something better than clerk
will remain in that station. The hand
tcraftsman who does not work with his
brain Win always be a handlcraftsman.
But In striving for success 1T must not
be forgotten that there are other and
better successes than those of a fnan-
cfal nature. 1t is better to achieve
character than wealth, but character
may not be won without intellectual
activity any more than money.
DO NOT NEGLECT YOUR OPPOR-
IONlIlES.
Quire as important TO success in life
as continued activity is the Selling of
your opportunities when they come to
you. Many eminent men have express
ed this idea in many ways. Here are
"a few such expressions which have
been gathered by Orlson SWEET Marden
and printed in the first chapter of his
book, Pushing to the Front:
Things don't turn up lin this world
until somebody turns them up.-Gar-
field.
We live In a new and exceptional
age. America is another name for OPP
portunity. Our whole history appears
like last effort of divine Providence
in behalf of the human race.-Emer-
son.
Vigilance in watching opportunity;
tact an daring in SELLING upon opportu-
nifty; force and persistence in crowding
opportunity to its utmost of possible
achievement; these are the martial vir-
tues which must command success
Austin Phelps.
Il will find way to make one"
There never was a day that did not
bring its own opportunity for doing
good that never could have been done
before and never can be again.-W. II.
Burleigh.
Are you in earnest? Seize this very
minute.
What you can do. or dream you can.
begin it,
YOU MUST BE RESOLUTE.
1.-The truest wisdom is a resolute de-
termination" said Napoleon once, and
his career was an exemplification of
his words.
+ MIR. Mar-den gives the following en-
tries on the fly leaf of the Greek lexi-
con owned by Edward Irving as an
other exemplification of the same idea:
six O'Clock a. nj, Edward Irving.
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mastered all the words in alpha and
beta before s a. m.
Eight O'Clock a. MI, Edward Ir-
wing, by the grace of God, have done
Russell Sage, who has certainly won
success Of a financial sort, once told
the writer that he had saved himself
from failure almost solely by the
strength of his will I asked him what
he did when he met with an apparent
ly insurmountable obstacle.
IT never met with such a thing"
said the financier and railroad man.
Whenever anything has been in my
young man who has will enough can
always remove the obstacles that con-
front him."
'"Tis not what a man does which
eNars him." said Browning. but what
he would do"
YOU MUST BE PERSISTENT.
The great violinist, Geradini, being
asked how long 1t took him to learn to
play, replied, Twelve hours a day for
20 years"
This is virtually the keynote to the
success of many eminent men in all
lines. Edison, the electrical inventor,
expressed this idea with regard to him
self when he said:
Anything have begun is always on
my mind, and l am never easy until IL
Us finished
Darwin, the great scientist whose
theory of evolution has wrought a
greater change in the views of think
ing men than any other theory that
has been preached in modern times.
owed much to persistence. He was al
most always i'll. For 40 years" said
his son, 'lhe never knew one day Of
health" Yet during those four de-
cades he used to force himself unre-
mfttingly to pursue the work which he
had set out TO do. Many a man with
the strongest constitution would have
shrunk from the enormous toll per-
formed by Darwin, but he stuck to II
wlh a patience that was marvellous.
Charles II. Cramp, the shtpbuilder, in
talking of success and how IL could be
obtained, declared It's greatest secret 10
be practice, practice. practice," tIf
you must never let up. II you do, you
will surely fall behind. / have always
found on returning to my business af-
ter an absence, no matter how brief.
that ! had something TO learn over
again, that had to work harder than
ever TO catch up"
A trip from Montana to the East can
be made a pleasure instead of burden