An Iron Will  (1901)

by Orison Marden Swett

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"The more difficulties one has to encounter, within or without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.....Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight."--Orison Swett Marden

In an Iron Will Orison Swett Marden explains that will power is the single most important ingredient in success. Learn how to develop will power and then how to focus and direct it into success. If you have will power there is nothing that you will not be able to reach for and attain!

For those who are seeking a higher power to guide their lives this book will be of great benefit . It stresses the importance of the human will for success in all life endeavors. The reader will learn how to harness the power of the self will to work for them instead of against them. It outlines the steps that one needs to take in order to create discipline, determination, motivation, and willpower to achieve one's goals. A must read for anyone who wants to achieve the pinnacle of success in their personal and professional lives. The book also contains an inspiring collection of poems, stories and quotes and timeless pieces of wisdom.

The mental reservoir of most people is like a leaky dam which we sometimes see in the country, where the greater part of the water flows out without going over the wheel and doing the work of the mill. The habit of mind-wandering, of worrying about this and that,

“Genius, that power which dazzles mortal eyes, Is oft but Perseverance in disguise...”

Our great need of the world to-day is for men and women who are good animals. To endure the strain of our concentrated civilization, the coming man and woman must have an excess of animal spirits. They must have a robustness of health. Mere absence of disease is not health. It is the overflowing fountain, not the one half full, that gives life and beauty to the valley below. Only he is healthy who exults in mere animal existence; whose very life is a luxury; who feels a bounding pulse throughout his body; who feels life in every limb, as dogs do when scouring over the field, or as boys do when gliding over fields of ice...

We hear a great deal of talk about genius, talent, luck, chance, cleverness, and fine manners play - ing 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 definite aim, a determined purpose, will not insure success...