Orison Swett Marden
Pushing to the Front
BY
ORISON SWETT MARDEN
"The world makes way for the determined man."
PUBLISHED BY
The Success Company's
Branch Offices
PETERSBURG, N.Y. —— TOLEDO —— DANVILLE
OKLAHOMA CITY —— SAN JOSE
COPYRIGHT, 1911,
By ORISON SWETT MARDEN.
FOREWORD
This revised and greatly enlarged edition of "Pushing to the Front" isthe outgrowth of an almost world-wide demand for an extension of theidea which made the original small volume such an ambition-arousing,energizing, inspiring force.
It is doubtful whether any other book, outside of the Bible, has beenthe turning-point in more lives.
It has sent thousands of youths, with renewed determination, back toschool or college, back to all sorts of vocations which they hadabandoned in moments of discouragement. It has kept scores of businessmen from failure after they had given up all hope.
It has helped multitudes of poor boys and girls to pay their waythrough college who had never thought a liberal education possible.
The author has received thousands of letters from people in nearly allparts of the world telling how the book has aroused their ambition,changed their ideals and aims, and has spurred them to the successfulundertaking of what they before had thought impossible.
The book has been translated into many foreign languages. In Japan andseveral other countries it is used extensively in the public schools.Distinguished educators in many parts of the world have recommended itsuse in schools as a civilization-builder.
Crowned heads, presidents of republics, distinguished members of theBritish and other parliaments, members of the United States SupremeCourt, noted authors, scholars, and eminent people in many parts of theworld, have eulogized this book and have thanked the author for givingit to the world.
This volume is full of the most fascinating romances of achievementunder difficulties, of obscure beginnings and triumphant endings, ofstirring stories of struggles and triumphs. It gives inspiring storiesof men and women who have brought great things to pass. It givesnumerous examples of the triumph of mediocrity, showing how those ofordinary ability have succeeded by the use of ordinary means. It showshow invalids and cripples even have triumphed by perseverance and willover seemingly insuperable difficulties.
The book tells how men and women have seized common occasions and madethem great; it tells of those of average ability who have succeeded bythe use of ordinary means, by dint of indomitable will and inflexiblepurpose. It tells how poverty and hardship have rocked the cradle ofthe giants of the race. The book points out that most people do notutilize a large part of their effort because their mental attitude doesnot correspond with their endeavor, so that although working for onething, they are real