Pushing to the FrontCosimo, Inc., 2005 M11 1 - 464 pages Remember that you cannot tell what may come to you in the future... and you cannot afford to take chances upon having anything in your history which can come up to embarrass you or to keep you back. -from the chapter "The Power of Purity" A phenomenal bestseller when it was first published in 1894 and greatly expanded, by popular demand, to two volumes in 1911, Orison Swett Marden's Pushing to the Front is a classic of the literature of personal motivation that remains startling relevant today. Marden, a forerunner of Dale Carnegie and Norman Vincent Peale, Stephen R.Covey and Anthony Robbins, explores a wide range of issues that hold us back from success in all arenas of our lives. Chapters in Volume 2 cover: The man with an idea The will and the way The might of little things Expect great things of yourself The habit of happiness The power of suggestion The curse of worry Why some succeed and others fail and much more. "Nearly all great men, those who have towered high above their fellows, have been remarkable above all things else for their energy of will," Marden notes... and shows us how to cultivate our energy of will, too. Also available from Cosimo Classics: Marden's Cheerfulness as a Life Power. American writer and editor ORISON SWETT MARDEN (1850-1924) was born in New England and studied at Boston University and Andover Theological Seminary. In 1897, he founded Success Magazine. |
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Page 435
... everything around her most of the time until , one day , while listening to a hand organ on the street , she suddenly awakened to full consciousness . She came to herself ; her faculties were aroused , and in a few days she leaped ...
... everything around her most of the time until , one day , while listening to a hand organ on the street , she suddenly awakened to full consciousness . She came to herself ; her faculties were aroused , and in a few days she leaped ...
Page 436
... Everything - every sermon or lecture or conversation you have heard , every person who has touched your life - has left an impress upon your character , and you are never quite the same person after the association or experience . You ...
... Everything - every sermon or lecture or conversation you have heard , every person who has touched your life - has left an impress upon your character , and you are never quite the same person after the association or experience . You ...
Page 448
... everything that stood in his way , defiant of opposition , imperious , irrepressible ! See the great Dante in exile , condemned to be burnt alive on false charges of embezzlement . Look at his starved features , gaunt form , melancholy ...
... everything that stood in his way , defiant of opposition , imperious , irrepressible ! See the great Dante in exile , condemned to be burnt alive on false charges of embezzlement . Look at his starved features , gaunt form , melancholy ...
Page 451
... Everything has not been invented . All good things have not been done . There are thousands of abuses to rectify , and each one challenges the independent soul , armed with a new idea . 44 But how shall I get ideas ? " Keep your wits ...
... Everything has not been invented . All good things have not been done . There are thousands of abuses to rectify , and each one challenges the independent soul , armed with a new idea . 44 But how shall I get ideas ? " Keep your wits ...
Page 462
... everything must conform , or we are ostracized . Who dares conduct his household or business affairs in his own way , and snap his fingers at Dame Grundy ? It takes courage for a public man not to bend the knee to popular prejudice . It ...
... everything must conform , or we are ostracized . Who dares conduct his household or business affairs in his own way , and snap his fingers at Dame Grundy ? It takes courage for a public man not to bend the knee to popular prejudice . It ...
Contents
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THE SALARY You DO NOT FIND IN YOUR PAY EN VELOPE | 525 |
LIV THE CURSE OF WORRY | 682 |
TAKE A PLEASANT THOUGHT TO BED WITH YOU | 690 |
THE CONQUEST OF POVERTY | 698 |
A NEW WAY OF BRINGING UP CHILDREN | 707 |
THE HOME AS A SCHOOL OF GOOD MANNERS | 722 |
MOTHER | 725 |
WHY SO MANY MARRIED WOMEN DETERIORATE | 739 |
THRIFT | 753 |
EXPECT GREAT THINGS OF YOURSELF | 540 |
THE NEXT TIME YOU THINK YOU ARE A FAILURE | 553 |
STAND FOR SOMETHING | 564 |
NATURES LITTLE BILL | 573 |
HABITTHE SERVANTTHE MASTER | 589 |
THE CIGARETTE | 601 |
THE POWER OF PURITY | 617 |
THE HABIT OF HAPPINESS | 634 |
PUT BEAUTY INTO YOUR LIFE | 647 |
EDUCATION BY ABSORPTION | 661 |
THE POWER OF SUGGESTION | 670 |
A COLLEGE EDUCATION AT HOME | 765 |
THE HOME READING CIRCLE | 778 |
DISCRIMINATION IN READING | 793 |
THE ROMANCE OF REALITY | 802 |
READING A SPUR TO AMBITION | 810 |
WHY SOME SUCCEED AND OTHERS FAIL | 823 |
GRAY HAIRS SEEKING A JOB | 837 |
CHARACTER IS POWER | 848 |
RICH WITHOUT MONEY | 865 |
Common terms and phrases
ability Alice Hegan Rice ambition beauty become brain Bright's disease career cause character Chasing happiness child cigarette courage developed discouraged dollars Dorothy Dix employer energy everything eyes face faculties failure faith fear feel force fortune friends George Eliot girl give greatest habit happiness heart Henry Ward Beecher human hundred idea ideals impurity iness influence JOHN WANAMAKER Julius Cæsar keep knowledge lack lives look Marshall Field matter ment mental attitude mind moral mother Napoleon nature ness never night one's opportunity Pilgrim's Progress poison poor portunities possible poverty purity realize rich ruined salary Samuel Drew says self-improvement sleep smoke soul stand story success suggestion tell things thought thousand tion to-day tobacco trying vigorous Wanamaker's Wendell Phillips wife woman women worry young youth
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Page 601 - For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
Page 523 - For want of a nail, the shoe was lost, For want of a shoe, the horse was lost, For want of a horse, the rider was lost, For want of a rider, the battle was lost.
Page 498 - 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.
Page 792 - Shakespeare to open to me the worlds of imagination and the workings of the human heart, and Franklin to enrich me with his practical wisdom, I shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship, and I may become a cultivated man though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live.
Page 523 - ... for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost...
Page 626 - It is the little rift within the lute, That by and by will make the music mute, And ever widening slowly silence all.
Page 476 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves. Men at some time are masters of their fates : The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
Page 574 - Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Page 477 - Who breaks his birth's invidious bar, And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance, And grapples with his evil star; Who makes by force his merit known And lives to clutch the golden keys, To mould a mighty state's decrees, And shape the whisper of the throne; And moving up from high to higher, Becomes on Fortune's crowning slope The pillar of a people's hope, The centre of a world's desire...
Page 466 - ... have been induced to begin, would in all probability have gone great lengths in the career of fame.