GUIDEPOSTS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11482, 2 September 1915, Page 4

GUIDEPOSTS.

SEVEN SECRETS OF SUCCESS. r A "writer in the " Watchman-Exam- 1 iner 5 ' gives these "seven secrets of j success 7 . _ ... Seize Your Opportunity —The d'fter-j Wee between the nien whd fail ami the men who succeed is just the difference between men who seize or men who' miss opportunities. ''Jump while the. wave is on the swell." " Strike while „ the iron is hot." " Sail while the wind • blows; wind and tide won't wait/' , r Be Prompt—Emerson says: ' The art. of getting rich consists not in _ indus-1 try, muoh less in saving, but in better order in timeliness, in being at tba | right spot." Do \our Level Best—Do yntr level, best every day. Your successful men | are not. as a rule, cleverer than those , who fail. They know how to make use of all the'r opportunities. • j . Most of your possibi.iiies are yet to be possessed. Forget the " might have , been." Reaoh forward to what you may be and should be. _ Never slight your work. Mr Cross said in his biography of George Eliot: " She had a great genius for taking < pains." - . mi ' Live Up to Your Reputation —l«a Persian proverb haa it, " Doing well depends upon doing completely." I It was said of Rufus Choate that h© would plead before a country squire m a petty oa«e w.th all the fervour and careful attention to detail with which he addressed the United States Su* ' pretne Court. / Exact precision charactei'ised Wen-'; dell Phillips's style, and to natural ability he added ambition for perfeo tion, shaping ©very word to express his exact thought. Every phrase, n» ] matter when or where he spoke, was i perfectly balanced before it left his: lips. Living up to his reputation brought h m a crowd everv time. Ho!d Fast--" Hold fast is better' than brag." A good' beginning plus a good continuance make a good end- ; ing. Franklin said: "By-perseverance the cat ate the cable in two." The motto of the State of Kansas > is:, " Through difficult'es to the stars." J B-j Courteous —That all the doors i open to courtesy is a truism that has ( manifested itself in the proverbs of the wise of a.l nations. The Germans say; "Hat in hand goes through the ! land." Confucius says: "Behave to-, ward every one as if receiving a great j guest." _ ! "He that says what he likes hears ! what he does not like" is ft Spanish, proverb. _ 1 Chesterfield says: "Polished brass I will pas 3 upon more people than rough j geld." | Be Honest—You are not bound to 1 Ibe ricii, but yoa are bound to be honest Better disaster than dishonour. Better honest failure than stained' success. Falsehood may laugh, but honesty has a heaven a'l its own. a madri:al ■» — Who can dwell with greatness 1 Greatness is too hitch; Flowers are for the meadow, suns are ' for the sky;— Ah 1 but there is greatness in this land of ours, High as is the sunlight, humble a« the flowers 1 Queen, of thee the fable t Lady, thine the fate! Royal, and yet lon ly, lowly, and yet * great e , . Great in far dominion, great in bannered years, i Greater still as woman, greatest in thy tears! f ' —From " Choral Songs in Honour of Queen Victoria," by Sir Hubert ■