Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1919 — Genuine Ambition Is Key to the Treasure Box of Success in Our Life Work [ARTICLE]

Genuine Ambition Is Key to the Treasure Box of Success in Our Life Work

‘‘No chance" has ever been the excuse of weaklings, of those who fall Interview the great army of failures, writes O. S. Marden In the New Success, and most of them will tell you that they never had an opportunity like others, that there was no one to help them, no one to give them a boost. They will tell you that the good places were all filled, that every occupation or profession was crowded, that there was no chance for them because all the good opportunities had gone by. Yet probably there is not one of them who did not have a better opportunity than did Abraham Lincoln, the backwoods boy, or Booker T. Washington, the stave boy. I have never known, a fellow who had winning material In him to complain that he never had a chance. It is difficult to conceive an environment so forbidding that It would have kept certain men from becoming successful. There was too much yeast in them. They had too vigorous an ambition to let obstacles stand In the way of their success. Circumstances have no power to keep down a youth who Is made of the right stuff. Energy is always at a premium. Determination never goes begging for a chance. There is nothing which commands such a price in the market as genuine ambition, an unwavering resolution, a tenacious purpose to achieve something worth while in life. There is no success lever equal to the unflinching resolve to succeed in spite of any and all obstacles or personal handicaps.