The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1896-01-02
NEW YEAR NOTICES.
POINTS ABOUT SUCCESS FROM THE
UTTERANCES OF GREAT MEN.
Here VIII BE Found Much That Will Tend
to Help Every Aspiring Young Man In
Successfully Fighting the Battle of Life.

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A'Vf termined whether
W by foAnal resolu-
tiOn or not to try to make 1896 the
most successful year of their lives. To
these few Of the mottoes and sayings
of successful men, together with here
and there an anecdote, showing how
they put their notions into practice, may
possibly be helpful. If read Alright,
much that follows will show that one
essential feature of success 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 we'll as physical. The
day laborer who is satisfied to exert his
muscles only will never rise above day
wages. The clerk who is satisfied to do
his work perfunctorily without exerting
his mental powers in striving to become
something better than clerk will re-
main in that station. The handicrafts-
man who does not work with his brain
will always be a handicraftsman. But
in striving for success it must not be
forgotten that there are other and better
ture. 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 Opportunities.
Quite as important to success in life
as continued activity is the seizing Of
your opportunities when they come to
you. Many eminent men have expressed
this idea in many ways Here are few
such expressions which have been gath
cred by Orison SWEET Marden and print
ed in the first chapter of his book,
Pushing to the 'FRONT.'
Things don't turn up in this world
until somebody turns them up.-Gar-
field.
We live in a new and exceptional age.
America is another name for opportu-
nifty. Our whole history appears like a
last effort of divine Providence in behalf
Of the human race.-Emerson.
Vigilance in watching opportunity ;
tact and daring in seizing 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 a way or make one. I"
There never was q day that did not
bring its own opportunity for doing
good that never could have been done
before and never can be again II.
Burleigh.
Arc you in earnest? Seize this very minute.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
You Must lie Resolute.
"The truest wisdom is resolute de-
termination, said Napoleon once, and
his career was an exemplification of his
words.
Mr.. Marden gives the following en-
tries on the fly leaf of the Greek lexicon
owned by Edward Irving as another ex-
emplification of the same idea:
Six o'clock Il. nj, Edward Irving,
promise, by the grace of God, to have
mastered all the words in alpha and
beta before 8 a. IN.
Eight o'clock a. nj, Edward h-
wing, by the grace of God, have done it. -
Russell Sage, who has certainly won
success of financial sort, once told the
Hriter that he had saved himself from
failure almost solely by the strength of
his will. l asked him what he did when
he met with an apparently insurmount-
able obstacle.
Il never met with such a thing" said
the financier and railroad man. "When-
ever anything has been in my way, I
have just removed it. The young man
who has will enough can always remove
| the obstacles that confront him.
{" 'Tis not what man does which
exalts him." said Browning, "but what
he would do''
You Must He Persistent.