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Pushing to the Front

Orison Swett Marden · Public domain text

251,869 words · about 17 h 38 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845

Text only · 15 illustrations omitted. Illustrated source.

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Author
Orison Swett Marden (1848–1924)
Language
English
Subjects
Success
Length
251,869 words · about 17 h 38 min
Sections
68 reader sections · Table of contents
Contents (68)
  1. Opening under 1 min
  2. Foreword about 5 min
  3. I. THE MAN AND THE OPPORTUNITY about 22 min
  4. II. WANTED--A MAN about 8 min
  5. III. BOYS WITH NO CHANCE about 37 min
  6. IV. THE COUNTRY BOY about 14 min
  7. V. OPPORTUNITIES WHERE YOU ARE about 13 min
  8. VI. POSSIBILITIES IN SPARE MOMENTS about 12 min
  9. VII. HOW POOR BOYS AND GIRLS GO TO COLLEGE about 22 min
  10. VIII. YOUR OPPORTUNITY CONFRONTS YOU--WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH IT? about 16 min
  11. IX. ROUND BOYS IN SQUARE HOLES about 14 min
  12. X. WHAT CAREER? about 17 min
  13. XI. CHOOSING A VOCATION about 18 min
  14. XII. CONCENTRATED ENERGY about 14 min
  15. XIII. THE TRIUMPHS OF ENTHUSIASM about 18 min
  16. Chapter XIV about 13 min
  17. XV. WHAT A GOOD APPEARANCE WILL DO about 13 min
  18. XVI. PERSONALITY AS A SUCCESS ASSET about 17 min
  19. XVII. IF YOU CAN TALK WELL about 19 min
  20. XVIII. A FORTUNE IN GOOD MANNERS about 29 min
  21. XIX. SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS AND TIMIDITY FOES TO SUCCESS about 7 min
  22. XX. TACT OR COMMON SENSE about 17 min
  23. XXI. ENAMORED OF ACCURACY about 18 min
  24. XXII. DO IT TO A FINISH about 26 min
  25. XXIII. THE REWARD OF PERSISTENCE about 18 min
  26. XXIV. NERVE--GRIP, PLUCK about 10 min
  27. XXV. CLEAR GRIT about 16 min
  28. XXVI. SUCCESS UNDER DIFFICULTIES about 12 min
  29. XXVII. USES OF OBSTACLES about 18 min
  30. XXVIII. DECISION about 15 min
  31. XXIX. OBSERVATION AS A SUCCESS FACTOR about 10 min
  32. XXX. SELF-HELP about 21 min
  33. XXXI. THE SELF-IMPROVEMENT HABIT about 14 min
  34. XXXII. RAISING OF VALUES about 8 min
  35. XXXIII. SELF-IMPROVEMENT THROUGH PUBLIC SPEAKING about 17 min
  36. XXXIV. THE TRIUMPHS OF THE COMMON VIRTUES about 11 min
  37. XXXV. GETTING AROUSED about 7 min
  38. XXXVI. THE MAN WITH AN IDEA about 17 min
  39. XXXVII. DARE about 25 min
  40. XXXVIII. THE WILL AND THE WAY about 18 min
  41. XXXIX. ONE UNWAVERING AIM about 20 min
  42. XL. WORK AND WAIT about 17 min
  43. XLI. THE MIGHT OF LITTLE THINGS about 16 min
  44. XLII. THE SALARY YOU DO NOT FIND IN YOUR PAY ENVELOPE about 20 min
  45. XLIII. EXPECT GREAT THINGS OF YOURSELF about 17 min
  46. XLIV. THE NEXT TIME YOU THINK YOU ARE A FAILURE about 14 min
  47. XLV. STAND FOR SOMETHING about 12 min
  48. XLVI. NATURE'S LITTLE BILL about 22 min
  49. XLVII. HABIT--THE SERVANT,--THE MASTER about 16 min
  50. XLVIII. THE CIGARETTE about 21 min
  51. XLIX. THE POWER OF PURITY about 21 min
  52. L. THE HABIT OF HAPPINESS about 17 min
  53. LI. PUT BEAUTY INTO YOUR LIFE about 19 min
  54. LII. EDUCATION BY ABSORPTION about 10 min
  55. LIII. THE POWER OF SUGGESTION about 15 min
  56. LIV. THE CURSE OF WORRY about 9 min
  57. LV. TAKE A PLEASANT THOUGHT TO BED WITH YOU about 10 min
  58. LVI. THE CONQUEST OF POVERTY about 11 min
  59. LVII. A NEW WAY OF BRINGING UP CHILDREN about 19 min
  60. LVIII. THE HOME AS A SCHOOL OF GOOD MANNERS about 3 min
  61. LIX. MOTHER about 18 min
  62. LX. WHY SO MANY MARRIED WOMEN DETERIORATE about 19 min
  63. LXI. THRIFT about 16 min
  64. LXII. A COLLEGE EDUCATION AT HOME about 19 min
  65. LXIII. DISCRIMINATION IN READING about 12 min
  66. LXIV. READING A SPUR TO AMBITION about 15 min
  67. LXV. WHY SOME SUCCEED AND OTHERS FAIL about 17 min
  68. LXVI. RICH WITHOUT MONEY about 12 min

The opening of Foreword

This revised and greatly enlarged edition of "Pushing to the Front" is the outgrowth of an almost world-wide demand for an extension of the idea which made the original small volume such an ambition-arousing, energizing, inspiring force.

It is doubtful whether any other book, outside of the Bible, has been the turning-point in more lives.

It has sent thousands of youths, with renewed determination, back to school or college, back to all sorts of vocations which they had abandoned in moments of discouragement. It has kept scores of business men from failure after they had given up all hope.

It has helped multitudes of poor boys and girls to pay their way through college who had never thought a liberal education possible.

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