In An Iron Will, by Orison Swett Marden we read:
We hear a great deal of talk about genius, talent, luck, chance, cleverness, and fine manners playing a large part in one’s success. Leaving out luck and chance, all these elements are important factors. Yet the possession of any or all of them, unaccompanied by a [...]

Finding true success is never easy. Greatness only arrives when we overcome obstacles.
In his book “An Iron Will”, Orison Swett Marden Relates:
“It is all very well,” said Charles J. Fox, “to tell me that a young man has distinguished himself by a brilliant first speech. He may go on satisfied with his first triumph; but [...]

In his book An Iron Will Orison Swett Marden Writes,

It is irresolution that is worse than rashness. “He that shoots,” says Feltham, “may sometimes hit the mark; but he that shoots not at all can never hit it.
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The man who is forever twisting and turning, backing and filling, hesitating and dawdling, shuffling and parleying, weighing [...]