| Show FIGHT FOR many a man has tried to justify his failure on the ground that he was doomed by the cards which fate dealt him that he must pick them up and play the game and that no effort however great on his part could ma change the result says a writer in success but my young friend the fate that deals your cards is in the main your own resolution tha result of the game does not rest fate or destiny but with you take the trick it you have J energy ability and deter nation requisite to take it you nate the power yourself to change the value of the cards which you say fate has dealt you the game depends upon your training upon the way you are disciplined to seize and use your opportunities and upon your ability to put grit in the place of su perlor advantages just because circumstances do sometimes ome times give clients to lawyers and patients to physicians put common place clergymen in uncommon pulpits and place the sons of the rich at the head of great corporations eten when they have only average ability and scarcely any experience while poor youths with greater ability and experience often have to fight their way for years to obtain ordinary sit nations are you justified in starting out without a chart or in leaving a place for luck in your program what would you think of the captain of a great liner who would start out to without any port in view and trust to luck to land his precious cargo did you ever know of a strong young man making out his life pro gram and depending upon chance to carry out any part of ita men who depend upon luck do not think it worth while to make a thorough prep for success they are not willing to pay the regular price tor it they are looking for bargains they are hunting for short cuts to success power gravitates to the man who 1 how luck is the tide noth ing more the strong man rows with it it it mal es toward his port he rows against it it it flows the other way |
