143. SUCCESS. Success is like a lovely woman, wooed -BHARAVI. Two only sources of success are known- If thou would'st rise.* -MAGHA. The sinews of fortune are not money, but rather the powers of the mind, address, courage, resolution, intrepidity, perseverance, moderation, industry, &c. A conscience clear,-a ready hand, Joined to a meek humility, Success must everywhere command, How could he fail who had all three t -BACON. -TORU DUTT. Vigour, energy, resolution, firmness of purpose, these carry the day. -SIR THOMAS F. BUXTON. The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men, between the feeble * From Indian Wisdom by Monier Williams. From Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan. and the powerful, the great and the insignificant, is energy, invincible determination,-a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory! That quality will do anything that can be done in this world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged creature A Man without it. -SIR THOMAS F. BUXTON. The surest way not to fail is to determine to suc ceed, -SHERIDAN. Is there one whom difficulties dishearten, who bends to the storm? He will do little. Is there one who will conquer? That kind of man never fails. -SIR THOMAS F. BUXTON. You shear through no end of cob-webs with that fine implement, a wisely fixed resolution of your own. -THOMAS CARLYLE. Man, be resolute! ever our worst difficulty Is the difficulty to compel ourselves to strive- enough. -CHARLES HENRY HANGER. The secret of success is constancy to purpose. -LORD BEACONSFIELD. They can conquer who believe they can. --DRYDEN. Confidence in one's self is a chief nurse of success, and every student must aim at this, and strive to reach. the happy mean between too little confidence and overconfidence in his own powers. Too great confidence is the likeliest way to prevent success, and too little confidence is the likeliest way to fail. -JAMES FLEMING. Whatever the work a man performs, * -"RAMAYANA." There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honours too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience. -BRUYERE. Whatever you put your heart to, will be crowned with success if you try with all your might. -PERSIAN PROVERB. Strive to complete the task thou hast commenced; Wearied, renew thy efforts once again; Again fatigued, once more the work begin, So shalt thou earn success and fortune win.* -MANU. Activity gives us success, and it is this that elevates the intelligent. But men of little understandings rely only in fortune in their miserable state. -"YOGA-VASISTHA."† * From Indian Wisdom by Monier Williams. † Translated by Vihari Lâlâ Mitra. Every man has his own success in his hand, just as the sculptor has the rough material which he intends to fashion into a statue. But it is with this art as with every other; capacity for it alone is born with us; to succeed in it we must learn it and practise it. -GOETHE. See first that the design is wise and just; -DR. ARNOLD. Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt; -ROBERT HERRICK. Nelson once said, "I owe all my success in life to having been always a quarter of an hour before my time." Policy often effects what force cannot. The rule, "Do not put all your eggs in one basket," does not apply to a man's life-work. Put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket, is the true doctrine-the most valuable rule of all. -ANDREW CARNEGIE. The path to success is common sense. The man who will distance his competitors is he, (1) who masters his business, (2) who preserves his integrity, (3) who lives clearly and purely, (4) who devotes his leisure to the acquisition of knowledge, (5) who never gets in debt, (6) who gains friends by deserving them, and (7) who saves his money. A man who does not solidly establish, and really deserve a character of truth, probity, good manners and good morals, at his first setting out in the world, may impose and shine like a meteor for a very short time, but will very soon vanish, and be extinguished with contempt. --LORD CHESTERFIELD. Accustom yourselves not to depend chiefly on others, but to make decisions of your own; to consider deliberately such practical question that arises, and then come to a positive determination on it, if this be possible. Every instance in which you say resolutely, No! to a seductive temptation; every time that you say firmly, Yes! to the call of self-denying duty; every time that you resist the urgency of the inclination that would deter you from an arduous course of action that your judgment and conscience deliberately approve; every time that in the midst of perplexities you can so concentrate your force of mind as to decide on the thing to be done without vacillation or delay, you will have gained somewhat in true executive power. Without the power of deciding with due promptness, and of adhering firmly to your decisions when they have been made, it will be in vain to expect that you will act in life with any considerable success. --AN AMERICAN WRITER. Do not listen to any nonsensical talk about officers requiring powerful friends to get them on. If you look .round you will find those who are now in responsible |