Success in Life | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 16, 1875

Success in Life.

Take earnest hold of life, as capacitated for, and destined to, a high and noble purpose. Study closely the mind’s bent for labor of a profession. Adopt it early and pursue it steadily, never looking back to the turning furrow, but forward to the ground that remains to be broken. Means and ways are abundant to every man’s success, if will and actions are rightly adapted to them. Our rich men and our great men have carved their paths to fortune, by this internal principle—a principle that cannot fail to reward him who resolutely pursues it. To sigh and repine over the lack of inheritance is unmanly. Every man should strive to be creator instead of inheritor. He should bequeath instead of borrow. He should be conscious of the power within him, and fight his own battles with his own lance. He should feel that it is better to earn a crust than to inherit coffers of gold. When once his spirit of self-reliance is learned, every man will discover within himself the elements and capacities of wealth. He will be rich in self-resources, and can lift his head proudly to meet the noblest among men.—Sel.