Pushing to the Front

Orison Swett Marden

Cosimo, Inc., Nov 1, 2005 - Self-Help - 460 pages

Self-consciousness is a foe to greatness in every line of endeavor. -from the chapter "Foes to Success" 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 1 cover: Choosing a vocation The triumphs of enthusiasm What a good appearance will do A fortune in good manners Tact or common sense Success under difficulties Uses of obstacles Observation as a success factor Public speaking The triumphs of common virtues and much more. "History furnishes thousands of examples of men who have seized occasions to accomplish results deemed impossible," Marden notes... and shows us how to seize those occasions, 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.

Contents

• The Mam and the Opportunity: 1
• Wasteda Man: 18
• Boys with No Chance: 25
• IT Thb Country Boy 82: 63
• POSSIBILITIES IN SPAKE MOMENTS: 78
• How Poor Boys and Girls go to Columns: 83
• Youb Opportunity confronts YouWhat will You do with It 1: 101
• Round Boys in Square Holes: 114
• What Career?: 125
• Choosino a Vocation 188: 138
• Concentrated Energy 182: 152
• Xni The Triumphs of Enthusiasm: 163
• On Time ok The Triumph of Promptness: 177
• What a Good Appearance wilt Do: 187
• Personality as a Success Asset: 197
• If You can talk Well: 210
• A Fortune in Good Manners: 224
• Selfconsciousness and Timidity Fobs to Suc cess: 246
• XX Tact or Common Sense: 252
• Enamored of Accuracy: 265
• Do it to a Finish: 279
• The Beward of Persistence: 299
• Nerve Grip Pluck 818: 313
• Clear Grit 821: 321
• Success under Difficulties 384: 334
• XXVH Uses of Obstacles 848: 343
• Decision 858: 358
• Observation as a Success Factor 869: 369
• Selfhelp 877: 377
• XXXL The Selfimprovement Habit 898: 393
• Raising of Values: 404
• Public Speaking: 411
• The Triumphs of the Common Virtues: 424

Popular passages

Page 23 - WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATE?" An Ode in Imitation of Alcaus WHAT constitutes a State,? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ; men, high-minded men...

Page 17 - There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune ; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows, and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.

Page 23 - God, give us men! A time like this demands Strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands; Men whom the lust of office does not kill; Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and a will; Men who have honor; men who will not lie; Men who can stand before a demagogue And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking! Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog In public duty and in private thinking...

Page 16 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me ? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward...

Bibliographic information

• Title: Pushing to the Front
• Author: Orison Swett Marden
• Publisher: Cosimo, Inc., 2005
• ISBN: 1596052929, 9781596052925
• Length: 460 pages
• Subjects: Self-Help / Motivational & Inspirational