Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1896-01-02
POINTS ABOUT SUCCESS FROM THE
UTTERANcES OF GREAT MEN.
Here WIN lie Found Much That VIII Tend
to Help Every Aspiring Young Man In
Successfully Fighting the Battle Of Life.

W lVIilhl Ttsulu-
tion Or not to try to make 1898 the
most successful year Of their lives. To
these a few Of the notices and sayings
Of successful men, together with here
and there an anecdote, showing how
they put their notions into practice, may
possibly bo 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
10 one need fail who is willing to exert
himself continuously But there must
be mental toll as well 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 u clerk will re-
main In that station. The handicrafts.
man who does not work with his brain
will always be n handicraftsman. But
In striving for success II must not be
forgotten that there are other and better
successes than those of u financial ma
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 tho seizing Of
your opportunities when they come to
you. Many eminent men have expressed
this idea in many ways. Here are a few
such expressions which have been gath
cred by Orison s%ett 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 namo for opportu
nifty, Oar whole history appears like I
last effort Of divine Providence in bohali
Of the human race. Emerson.
Vigilance in watching opportunity
tact and daring in seizing upon opportu
nifty; forco and persistence in crowdine
opportunity to its utmost of possible
achievement; these are the martial vir
tues which must command success. -
Austin Phelps
II will find n way or make one.
There never was day that did pot
bring its own opportunity for doing
good that never could have been done
before and never can be again. w. IL,
Burleigh.
Are you in carnestf Seize this very minute,
What you can do, or dream you can, begin w.
You Must Bo Rcnolute.
''The truest wisdom is q resolute dc.
termination, said Napoleon once, and
his career was an exemplilication Of hi
words.
Mr. Mardcn gives tho following en-
tries on the fly leaf Of the Greek lexicon
owned by Edward Irving as another OK.
empli6cation Of the same idea
Six o'clock a. IN. Il, Edward Irving,
promise, by the grace Of God, to have
mastered all tho words In alpha and
beta before s u. m.
Eight o'clock a. m. Il, Edward IT.
wing, by the grace Of God, have done II. -
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
hiswll. | asked him what he did when
he met with an apparently insurmount-
able obstacle.
II never met with such o thing" F" said
the financier and railroad man, when
ever anything has been in my way, |
have just removed 1t, Tho young man
who has will enough 'an always remove
the obstacles that confront him.
g 'Tis not what Il man does which
oxalts him, " said Browning, 'but what
no would do. "
You Must lie Persistent.
Tho great violinist Gcradini, being
asked how long 1t took him to learn to
play, replied, Twelve hours 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 ho said
Anything have begun isalways on
my mind, and ! am never easy until II
is finished. "
Darwin, the great scientist, whose
theory of evolnti0n bag wrought A qreat.