The Prosperity & Wealth Bible. Kahlil Gibran
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It’s a quality beyond price — this Loyalty.
Be Loyal.
The Loyal man oft times is of all men with discouragement tempted. But the fellow who sticks to his Faith and is Loyal — is the man that finally feels Growth and Equipment and Power becoming a part of himself.
Be Loyal.
Loyalty means sacrifice. But sacrifice means Success!
Be Loyal.
The steps of Achievement and Honor and Satisfaction are all rock riveted to Loyalty — Loyalty to your Work, and to your Friends.
Be Loyal.
Benefits redound to the fit and worthy. Your work to-day may seem mean and obscure indeed to yourself. But “the gods see everywhere” and the least neglect or slight to what you hold in hand to-day, may reflect and loom large in the completed work. Loyal attention from the start to the finish is the safest, fairest and surest path for you to pursue. Do but this and Results will take jealous care of you.
Be Loyal.
Courage
Have courage.
Courage is the art of sitting calmly in your seat without stirring and without getting excited when the Brass Band of Popularity, or Temporary Success or Ridicule goes by your house and turns around the corner. Courage steps out of the crowd. It stands alone.
Courage is native Nerve — refined.
Courage is neither bulldozing nor bare bluff — it’s not related to either. Courage isn’t physical merely, but moral — mostly.
Courage is naked Right put through fire and brought out uncracked and unbroken.
Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances.
A day without some Courage sprinkled in it is a day little worthwhile. For Courage makes the Man — and there never was a real Man that didn’t have Courage.
Courage is a thing born in you — but it is also a thing much lustered by use and cultivation.
To-day, to-morrow — and every day — have Courage. It makes the heart glad and the soul strong. It starts smiles in the system and stirs up the kind of circulation in a man that makes him go out and do his best at the most humble undertaking.
You can never fail if you have Courage — but you can never win without it.
Have Courage!
Fight
Learn to be a Fighter.
Not with fists or clubs or swords — but through the noble mastering of the Forces at your command — generated by your own Brain.
For great are victories gained from the everyday battles of life over the endless difficulties that almost hourly face such a Force.
Learn to be a Fighter.
Then fight! Fight face to the front — fiercely yet fairly. And when everybody looks upon you as a loser and calls you whipped — that’s your cue to finish the fight — and WIN!
Learn to be a Fighter.
You will not always win, but never admit it. Half the so-named failures of all time lie in Conquerors’ graves. And the flowers of God, and the winds of undying Fame cool and smooth the sleeping souls that didn’t know HOW to die!
Learn to be a Fighter.
What is your work to-day? Make it a battle front! Muster the be6t that is in you and go out to meet and vanquish every obstacle that seeks to keep this day from being the one you will most prize as the one of all your days most worthwhile — to other people and to yourself. Fight every inch of the way. Give no quarter — and accept none. Go to your bed with the spirit and satisfaction of a Conqueror.
Learn to be a fighter!
Stick
Stick.
Just Stick.
This is the essence — the beginning and ending — of Success.
Stick.
The Sticker is the “getthere” man.
Stick.
Everybody begins — but not all Stick. Yesterday you failed, maybe, but to-day you can Win — if you Stick it out. All achievers wear a badge labeled “STICK.”
You Stick — to-day.
When you fed like quitting — Stick! If the other fellow is getting the best of you — Stick. He will if you don’t.
Stick.
The great successes of business and life are but repetitions of the same story — the story of men who knew HOW to Stick.
Stick.
You may not like your job, but think before you change it. So few know HOW to Stick. So few learn WHEN to Stick. So few care WHERE they Stick. You think it out with patience. Then — whether it be a job or a task — Stick it out.
Stick.
To-day — start things and Stick to each until finished — completed in the best way you know how.
Just Stick.
Faith
Have Faith.
First, Faith in yourself, then Faith in the thing you set out to do — then Faith in the result. Faith is the ability to believe you have won before you have. It’s the art of beating the enemy, the obstacles, or the plan of your opposers, before they have securely organized. For Faith is to take victory in hand at the start. Have Faith.
The great stories of Success from the beginning of time are but narratives of men and women doers — who had Faith. Faith feeds the hungry in adversity — clothes and warms the needy in temporary failure. For Faith builds. It cannot destroy.
Have Faith.
Your success is limited only by your Faith. The results from Faith live limitless. Take heart.
Have Faith.
The only time people fail is when they lose Faith. The Pitcher in a ball game, the Soldier on a battle-field, the Leader in Politics, the Executive at the head of a task or business — the humblest Toiler — each goes ahead and does his best only as he is inspired to it by Faith. First, as he has it — then as those about, under or near him have Faith in him.
Have Faith.
And make it a vital part of your determination to Win, to-day. The most obscure worker is entitled to as great credit for results in proportion, as the man who commands — so long as he has and uses all the Faith he can muster. So, remember to keep a good stock of Faith on hand constantly. All this day long —
Have Faith.
Enthusiasm
Enthusiasm is what happens to a man when on taking invoice, he discovers that his Heart and Head and Determination have finally welded into and become a part of “the Main Chance.”
Enthusiasm is a process — not merely a condition.
Most everybody has a Head and Heart and Determination — but it’s the folks that have sufficient sense to get these together in the same spot at the same time for the same purpose that start things and move on the progress of the times.
Enthusiasm is the spark that starts the Action that moves the Man that finds the Cows and brings them home. Enthusiasm is what makes a fellow “get there.”
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