Article September 13, 1900 Issue

Right Thinking as a Help to Success

Success

Most of the people who are down in the world financially, or from the success standpoint, have lost their ambition, their hold upon high ideals. They are poor and talk poverty. They think poverty, and make little effort to get away from it or to change their depression.

How could even a Raphael paint the face of Christ with that of Judas in his mind? The ideal, the model, is the first step toward betterment of one's condition. No sculptor can carve an angel's form out of rough marble until he has first seen the angel in his mind's eye.

To be forever thinking poverty, talking of failure, and living in an atmosphere of dejection and demoralized selfconfidence, is just the condition of things that naturally brings poverty into our lives. There is no hope of success in such an environment. A strong, vigorous purpose, held firmly and persistently, is the first step toward progress. Without this there can be nothing but mediocrity or failure. Any one who constantly holds the picture of want in his mind, talks incessantly of his misfortunes or ill luck, and thinks that fate is against him, has no chance of winning in the battle of life. He must change his point of view or his fortunes will not mend. It is fear that makes beggars.

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