Ethics of Success (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Ethics of Success<br><br>The lives of great men are an inspiration to the young. Tact, industry, perseverance, honesty, self-reliance, and the other virtues indispensable to success are incarnated in them. They are lived, thereby becoming real things instead of idealities or speculation. Abstractions and mere sentiment impress youth feebly, in comparison with truths which men illustrate by noble deeds. By studying these, the young discover a secret of power, and learn the value of the virtues by seeing the men who practiced them. Human experience invests certain elements of character with a sort of personality; and personality itself is power.<br><br>There is no more profitable study for the young than the study of men and women who made things happen. Emerson said, "There is properly no history - only biography." If this be true, acquaintance with the great and good who made history must be doubly profitable to the young.<br><br>The incitement of a great cause or principle also stimulates youth to nobler purposes. Great men and women represent great things; as commerce, art science, philanthropy, liberty, education and religion.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.