ULTIMATE SUCCESS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6572, 5 February 1925, Page 3

ULTIMATE SUCCESS.

GO ON TRYING There are some men who can obey orders, and there are some men who can get things done. It is well to be obedient; it is better to be resourceful. A resourceful man is one who, when he cannot do a thing one way, does it another. He keeps on trying. When it’s time to quit, he begins. When he is licked, he begins fighting again. Success in life is not like shooting at a mark with a stream of water from a hose; you just keep on till finally you hit it—maybe. It is well to know how; it is better to try; for by trying you learn how. Success is like picking a lock, not like working an example in long division. It is like solving a rebus more than it is like demonstrating a theory in geometry. It is like starting a fire with damp wood more than it is like getting a chemical reaction in a laboratory. All the big things are accomplished by trying, trying, trying. Only the little things can be done by rule, and a cheap hand to do them. To paint a great picture means infinite approximations. None is painted by rule. Nobody learns to write well, except by -writing. Only by keeping everlastingly at it, whether we feel like it or not with inspiration and without, in quiet and din, in comfort and in dyspepsia, “no day without a line,” only so comes the mysterious endowment of style. There are three rules for success. The first is, go on; the second is, go on; and the third, go on. Wisdom is the precipitate of experiment. Belief is the spirit of experiment. Character is the subjective result of experiment. And success the objective result. Go on.