6128<\/b> Divine Success<\/b><\/p>\n
Dr. Paul Rees said, \u201cIf you want a picture of success as heaven measures it, of greatness as God views it, don\u2019t look for the blaring of the bands on Broadway; listen, rather, for the tinkle of water splashing into a basin, while God incarnate, in a humility that makes angels hold their breaths, sponges the grime from the feet of His undeserving disciples.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Bible Expositor<\/i><\/p>\n
6129<\/b> This Is Success<\/b><\/p>\n
To be able to carry money without spending it; to be able to bear an injustice without retaliating; to be able to keep on the job until it is finished; to be able to do one\u2019s duty even when one is not watched; to be able to accept criticism without letting it whip you. <\/p>\n
\u2014The Uplift<\/i><\/p>\n
6130<\/b> What Is Success? <\/b><\/p>\n
Success is speaking words of praise<\/p>\n
In cheering other people\u2019s ways, <\/p>\n
In doing just the best you can<\/p>\n
With every task and every plan. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s silence when your speech would hurt, <\/p>\n
Politeness when your neighbor\u2019s curt. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s deafness when the scandal flows, <\/p>\n
And sympathy with others\u2019 woes. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s loyalty when duty calls;<\/p>\n
It\u2019s courage when disaster falls, <\/p>\n
It\u2019s patience when the hours are long;<\/p>\n
It\u2019s found in laughter and in song. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s in the silent time of prayer, <\/p>\n
In happiness and in despair. <\/p>\n
In all of life and nothing less, <\/p>\n
We find the thing we call success. <\/p>\n
\u2014Anonymous<\/p>\n
6131<\/b> Winner Versus Loser<\/b><\/p>\n
1. A winner says, \u201cLet\u2019s find out\u201d; a loser says, \u201cNobody knows.\u201d<\/p>\n
2. When a winner makes a mistake, he says, \u201cI was wrong.\u201d When a loser makes a mistake, he says, \u201cIt wasn\u2019t my fault.\u201d<\/p>\n
3. A winner goes through a problem; a loser goes around it, and never gets past it. <\/p>\n
4. A winner makes commitments; a loser makes promises. <\/p>\n
5. A winner says, \u201cI\u2019m good, but not as good as I ought to be.\u201d A loser says, \u201cI\u2019m not as bad as a lot of other people are.\u201d<\/p>\n
6. A winner tries to learn from those who are superior to him. A loser tries to tear down those who are superior to him. <\/p>\n
7. A winner says, \u201cThere ought to be a better way to do it.\u201d A loser says, \u201cThat\u2019s the way it\u2019s always been done here.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Mile-Hi Evangelist<\/i><\/p>\n
6132<\/b> Success And Suffering<\/b><\/p>\n
Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone else has suffered before you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is that someone else may succeed after you. <\/p>\n
\u2014Edward Tudson<\/p>\n
6133<\/b> Success And Defeat<\/b><\/p>\n
It\u2019s the defeat more than anything else that hurts you! Defeat is always the hardest thing for you to stand, even in trifles. But don\u2019t you know that we have to be defeated in order to succeed? Most of us spend half our lives fighting for things that would only destroy us if we got them. A man who has never been defeated is usually a man who has been ruined. <\/p>\n
\u2014J. L. Allen<\/p>\n
6134<\/b> Go Down, To Go Up<\/b><\/p>\n
When I was in London I had the thrilling experience of climbing up the 637 steps into the magnificent dome of St. Paul\u2019s Cathedral. About nine-tenths of the way up, just at the base of the dome, there is an exit that brings one outside onto a promenade with a marvelous view of the city. If a person is to climb to the apex of the dome of which the great, golden cross is erected, he has to go back inside through a small door on which there is a sign containing these words: \u201cGo down, to go up.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Sunday School Times<\/i><\/p>\n
6135<\/b> Poor Judgment Started It<\/b><\/p>\n
The successful man was asked the secret of his accomplishments, His reply was: \u201cGood judgment!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere did you learn good judgment?\u201d he was asked. <\/p>\n
\u201cFrom experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd from where did you gain your experience?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom poor judgment.\u201d<\/p>\n
6136<\/b> The Unpromising Robertson<\/b><\/p>\n
Dr. J. B. Hawthorne was a noted orator sought by scores of churches and tens of thousands of hearers. Once he went to help a southern church in a two-week evangelistic campaign. The end of the meetings found only a little, unpromising lad saved. Dr. Hawthorne was a bit chagrined. <\/p>\n
But that boy became the noted A. T. Robertson, the greatest American Greek scholar of the 20th century. <\/p>\n
6137<\/b> Edgar Allan Poe<\/b><\/p>\n
There was a young man who was ill and unhappy most of his short life\u2014heart trouble at seventeen, inherited physical weaknesses, an orphan before he was three and taken in by strangers, kicked out of school, suffered from poverty, and had no fame until after his pitiful death at the young age of forty. Yet, in the short space of about twenty years, he gave the world articles, essays, brilliant criticisms. His poetry is widely read. He wrote short stories and detective stories, and one of his poems is on exhibit at the world-famous Huntington Library, at San Marino, California, and is worth $50,000. This poor, young invalid was a great literary genius, Edgar Allan Poe. <\/p>\n
6138<\/b> Life Of Mozart<\/b><\/p>\n
Few individuals have been more naturally favored than Johann Chrysostomus Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. At age five he wrote an advanced concerto for the harpsichord. At seven he was performing the most difficult compositions of Bach and Handel. At twelve he composed his first opera. <\/p>\n
Yet this \u201cbest pianist and greatest composer of his time\u2014perhaps of all history\u201d\u2014died in poverty and obscurity at age thirty-five. His widow was ill and seemed indifferent as to his burial. A few friends went as far as the church but were deterred by the storm from going to the grave. By the time anyone bothered to inquire of it, the location of the grave was impossible to discover. Mozart\u2019s unmarked grave has been lost ever since. <\/p>\n
Thus, though Mozart\u2019s name and his music live on, his personal fortunes were hardly to be envied. <\/p>\n
\u2014Stanley C. Baldwin<\/p>\n
6139<\/b> Life Of Hugo<\/b><\/p>\n
Victor Hugo came into disfavor with Napoleon III. And, as a consequence, Hugo was exiled for nineteen long years. But when those fateful years were over, and Victor Hugo died, famous were the funeral obsequies. The largest funeral of France was that of Victor Hugo. All the great institutions were represented. There were huge floral floats following detachments of soldiers. Ten thousand soldiers were needed to control the millions who gathered to watch the procession in the year 1883. <\/p>\n
6140<\/b> Life Of Redon<\/b><\/p>\n
After lengthy and bitter family litigation, Peyrelebade, the motherlode of all Redon\u2019s Gothic fantasies, was lost to him in 1897. His finances reached an all-time low; he had to write his mother to look to his richer brothers for aid because he could not spare her a sou. Ironically, a Redon flower painting was sold at Sotheby\u2019s in London for $172,800\u2014more than the artist earned in his lifetime. <\/p>\n
6141<\/b> Life Of Lincoln<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cI do the very best I know how\u2014the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so.\u201d<\/p>\n
Abraham Lincoln\u2019s life is the best example of his own words. Consider the chronology of his career:<\/p>\n
1831 – Failed in business<\/p>\n
1832 – Defeated for legislature<\/p>\n
1833 – Again failed in business<\/p>\n
1834 – Elected to legislature<\/p>\n
1835 – Sweetheart died<\/p>\n
1836 – Had nervous breakdown<\/p>\n
1838 – Defeated for speaker<\/p>\n
1840 – Defeated for elector<\/p>\n
1843 – Defeated for Congress<\/p>\n
1846 – Elected to Congress<\/p>\n
1848 – Defeated for Congress<\/p>\n
1855 – Defeated for Senate<\/p>\n
1856 – Defeated for Vice-President<\/p>\n
1858 – Defeated for Senate<\/p>\n
1860 – ELECTED PRESIDENT<\/p>\n
6142<\/b> Ladder Still There<\/b><\/p>\n
On Lincoln\u2019s birthday an interesting cartoon appeared in a newspaper. It showed a small log cabin at the base of a mountain, and the White House at the top of the mountain. A ladder connected the two buildings. At the bottom of the cartoon were these words: \u201cThe ladder is still there!\u201d To climb that ladder, however, means sweat and toil<\/p>\n
6143<\/b> Wanamaker\u2019s Innovation<\/b><\/p>\n
Here is the great innovation in storekeeping which John Wanamaker introduced: You could buy anything in the store and take it home; after you got it home if you did not like it, or the folks did not, or for any other reason you did not want it, you could take it back and your money would be returned without any question, argument, or hemming and hawing! Honesty had at last gotten into store-trading. Who could be \u201cstuck\u201d or overcharged when each article had marked upon it an invisible ink, as it were, \u201cIf you don\u2019t think I\u2019m your money\u2019s worth, take me back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course, Mr. Wanamaker was imposed upon terribly. Women bought dresses, wore them to parties, and took them back the next day. Others furnished their houses and table for a function, then back with the glassware and china. But crowds filled the store and it grew and grew, and when Mr. Wanamaker died, his estate was said to be some $40,000,000 or more. Honesty is the best policy. <\/p>\n
\u2014Storekeeper<\/i><\/p>\n
6144<\/b> The $11,000 Lemon<\/b><\/p>\n
In 1908, the New York Giants paid the then-fantastic price of $11,000 for a kid pitcher in the bushes at Indianapolis. His name was Richard Marquard, and because he was a tall, wry-necked southpaw, he was nicknamed \u201cRube.\u201d He tried so hard to live up to his fancy press notices that he went to pieces, and for two seasons was referred to scathingly as the \u201c$11,000 lemon.\u201d In 1911, however, \u201cRube\u201d Marquard hit his stride, and in 1912 hung up his record of nineteen consecutive wins. <\/p>\n
6145<\/b> Little Einstein\u2019s Failures<\/b><\/p>\n
A boy was so slow to learn to talk that his parents thought him abnormal and his teachers called him a \u201cmisfit.\u201d His classmates avoided him and seldom invited him to play with them. He failed his first college entrance exam at a college in Zurich, Switzerland. A year later he tried again. In time he became world-famous as a scientist. His name: Albert Einstein. <\/p>\n
6146<\/b> Attack At Daybreak<\/b><\/p>\n
At the close of the first day of the battle of Shiloh, a day of severe Union reverses, Gen. Grant was met by his much discouraged chief-of-staff, McPherson, who said: \u201cThings look bad, General. We have lost half our artillery and a third of the infantry. Our line is broken, and we are pushed back nearly to the river.\u201d Grant made no reply, and McPherson asked impatiently what he intended to do. \u201cDo? Why, reform the lines and attack at daybreak. Won\u2019t they be surprised?\u201d<\/p>\n
Surprised they were, and routed before nine o\u2019clock. Every man that succeeds meets just such crises, and must avert disaster with a prompt reforming of lines and early attack. <\/p>\n
6147<\/b> Wife\u2019s Approval Of \u201cLuck\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n
I wonder if every admirer of Bret Harte knows how serious were the obstacle in the way of the success of his first and really most famous story, \u201cThe Luck of Roaring Camp\u201d. The lady proofreader on the Overland Monthly<\/i>, of which Harte was editor, raised her voice against the admission of the story into the pages of the magazine, while the publisher himself had grave doubts as to the wisdom of allowing the story to appear in his publication. <\/p>\n
But at last he decided to have his wife read the story in manuscript, and she was delighted with it, so much so, that Mr. Carmany at once decided to allow the \u201cLuck\u201d to appear in the Overland<\/i>. And so it was published, and its advent made not only the Overland famous, but its young editor a reputation as the Dickens of America. <\/p>\n
\u2014G. N. Lawson<\/p>\n
6148<\/b> Secrets From The Famous<\/b><\/p>\n
The world-renowned ROTHSCHILDS describe their success to the following rules: \u201cBe an off-hand man: make a bargain at once. Never have anything to do with an unlucky man or plan. Be cautious and bold.\u201d JOHN JACOB ASTOR, when requested to furnish incidents of his life, replied, \u201cMy actions must make my life.\u201d STEPHEN GIRARD\u2019S fundamental maxim was, \u201cTake care of the cents: the dollars will take care of themselves.\u201d AMOS LAWRENCE said, when asked for advice, \u201cYoung man, base all your actions upon a principle of right; preserve your integrity of character; and, in doing this never reckon the cost.\u201d A. T. STEWART, the merchant-prince of New York, says, \u201cNo abilities, however splendid, can command success without intense labor and persevering application.\u201d NICHOLAS LONGWORTH, the Cincinnati millionnaire, says, \u201cI have always had these two things before me: Do what you undertake thoroughly. Be faithful in all accepted trusts.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2014Foster<\/p>\n
6149<\/b> Epigram On Success<\/b><\/p>\n
\u2022 If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect some blisters. <\/p>\n
\u2014Rotator<\/i><\/p>\n
\u2022 The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well. <\/p>\n
\u2014John D. Rockefeller, Jr. <\/p>\n
\u2022 Success is getting what you want out of life without violating the rights of others. <\/p>\n
\u2022 One of the most important lessons of life is that success must continually be won and is never finally achieved. <\/p>\n
\u2014Charles Evans Hughes<\/p>\n
\u2022 Success is not permanent. The name is also true of failure. <\/p>\n
\u2014Dell Crossword Puzzles<\/p>\n
\u2022 The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it\u2019s the same problem you had last year. <\/p>\n
\u2022 The conditions of success are always easy\u2014we have to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe awhile. <\/p>\n
\u2014School Musician<\/i><\/p>\n
\u2022 Secret of success is to be like a duck\u2014smooth and unruffled on top, but paddling furiously underneath. <\/p>\n
\u2022 The world expects result. Don\u2019t tell others about the labor pains. Show them the baby.<\/p>\n
\u2014Arnold Glascow<\/p>\n
\u2022 The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship? <\/p>\n
\u2022 I would rather fail in the cause that someday will triumph than triumph in a cause that someday will fail. <\/p>\n
\u2014Woodrow Wilson<\/p>\n
\u2022 The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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