The Secret Of Wealth
132 total pages.
GOING boldly simply means going with assurance and carrying with one the atmosphere of calm confidence. In these days of individual competition, it takes boldness and confidence to win. Unfortunately, freshness or brazenness is sometimes confused with boldness. A few will win with brass and cheek and nerve but the real success comes to those who are bold and sure, those who are calmly confident of winning. Going serenely means to go without excitement and without unnecessary noise. Serenity is born of that calm assurance, which knows that it is right and then goes ahead. To go augustly is to go with that supreme dignity, which commands the respect and attention of every man. Personal dignity carries a man far; the dignified man, the man with august presence walks easily through the crowds that surround him and they fall back to give him room. Dignity is sometimes imitated by self-assurance, conceit or egotism. Conceited or egotistical persons can never be dignified, because they are ludicrous. The man who commands your respect in business, the lawyer who sways juries and the orator who is able to carry his audience with him; these men must be bold, serene and dignified. It is not the position which a man holds which gives him dignity for it has been truly said: "True dignity is never gained by place and never lost when honors aro withdrawn." The position does not dignify the man who is competent to fill it. The most dignified position in the Country has been further dignified by certain men who have occupied the Presidential chair, but "Dignity of position adds to dignity of character; give us a proud position and we are impelled to act up to it." The boldness of honesty of purpose, the serenity of self-confidence and real and impressive dignity are all augmented and strengthened by the power of money. The man with means or the man with an assured and ample income is easily distinguished on the street from the man who is spending more than he earns or the man with no money in the bank and little in his pocket.
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The Secret Of Wealth