Pushing to the Front Or Success Under Difficulties by Orison Swett Marden (Illustrated)

Pushing to the Front or, Success Under Difficulties. 1894.

“There are two essential requirements for success. The first is “go-at-it-iveness” and the second is “stick-to-it-iveness” - Orison Swett Marden

“Pushing to the Front” became the single greatest runaway classic in the history of personal development books at that time. People like Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone and J.P. Morgan cited it as inspiration. Marden went on to write more than twenty other inspirational books." Wikipedia



It is doubtful whether any other book, outside of the Bible, has been the turning-point in more lives.

The book tells how men and women have seized common occasions and made them great; it tells of those of average ability who have succeeded by the use of ordinary means, by dint of indomitable will and inflexible purpose. It tells how poverty and hardship have rocked the cradle of the giants of the race. The book points out that most people do not utilize a large part of their effort because their mental attitude does not correspond with their endeavor, so that although working for one thing, they are really expecting something else; and it is what we expect that we tend to get.

It has sent thousands of youths, with renewed determination, back to school or college, back to all sorts of vocations which they had abandoned in moments of discouragement. It has kept scores of business men from failure after they had given up all hope.
It has helped multitudes of poor boys and girls to pay their way through college who had never thought a liberal education possible.
The author has received thousands of letters from people in nearly all parts of the world telling how the book has aroused their ambition, changed their ideals and aims, and has spurred them to the successful undertaking of what they before had thought impossible.

Chapters Include:
CONTENTS
1. THE MAN AND THE OPPORTUNITY
2. WANTED—A MAN
3. BOYS WITH NO CHANCE
4. THE COUNTRY BOY
5. OPPORTUNITIES WHERE YOU ARE
6. POSSIBILITIES IN SPARE MOMENTS
7. HOW POOR BOYS AND GIRLS GO TO COLLEGE
8. YOUR OPPORTUNITY CONFRONTS YOU—WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH IT?
9. ROUND BOYS IN SQUARE HOLES
10. WHAT CAREER?
11. CHOOSING A VOCATION
12. CONCENTRATED ENERGY
13. THE TRIUMPHS OF ENTHUSIASM
14. "ON TIME," OR, THE TRIUMPH OF PROMPTNESS
15. WHAT A GOOD APPEARANCE WILL DO
16. PERSONALITY AS A SUCCESS ASSET
17. If YOU CAN TALK WELL
18 .A FORTUNE IN GOOD MANNERS
19. SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS AND TIMIDITY FOES TO SUCCESS
20. TACT OR COMMON SENSE
21. ENAMORED OF ACCURACY
22. DO IT TO A FINISH
23. THE REWARD OF PERSISTENCE
24. NERVE—GRIP, PLUCK
25. CLEAR GRIT
26. SUCCESS UNDER DIFFICULTIES
27. USES OF OBSTACLES
28. DECISION
29. OBSERVATION AS A SUCCESS FACTOR
30. SELF-HELP
31. THE SELF-IMPROVEMENT HABIT
32. RAISING OF VALUES
33. PUBLIC SPEAKING
34. THE TRIUMPHS OF THE COMMON VIRTUES
35. GETTING AROUSED
36. THE MAN WITH AN IDEA
37. DARE
38. THE WILL AND THE WAY
39. ONE UNWAVERING AIM
40. WORK AND WAIT
41. THE MIGHT OF LITTLE THINGS
42. THE SALARY YOU DO NOT FIND IN YOUR PAY ENVELOPE
43. EXPECT GREAT THINGS OF YOURSELF
44. THE NEXT TIME YOU THINK YOU ARE A FAILURE
45. STAND FOR SOMETHING
46. NATURE'S LITTLE BILL
47. HABIT—THE SERVANT,—THE MASTER
48. THE CIGARETTE
49. THE POWER OF PURITY
50. THE HABIT OF HAPPINESS
51. PUT BEAUTY INTO YOUR LIFE
52. EDUCATION BY ABSORPTION
53. THE POWER OF SUGGESTION
54. THE CURSE OF WORRY
55 .TAKE A PLEASANT THOUGHT TO BED WITH YOU
56. THE CONQUEST OF POVERTY
57. A NEW WAY OF BRINGING UP CHILDREN
58. THE HOME AS A SCHOOL OF GOOD MANNERS
59. MOTHER
60.WHY SO MANY MARRIED WOMEN DETERIORATE
61. THRIFT
62. A COLLEGE EDUCATION AT HOME
63 .DISCRIMINATION IN READING
64. READING A SPUR TO AMBITION
65. WHY SOME SUCCEED AND OTHERS FAIL
66. RICH WITHOUT MONEY


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