[The Best Rules for Health, Happiness and Success.]
THEY ARE WORTH THE ATTENTION AND THOUGHT OF ALL READERS.
- 1. Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
- 2. Never trouble another for what you can do yourself.
- 3. Never spend your money before you have earned it.
- 4. Never buy what you don't want because it is cheap.
- 5. Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.
- 6. We seldom repent of eating too little.
- 7. Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.
- 8. How much pain the evils have cost us that have never happened.
- 9. Take things always by the smooth handle.
- 10. When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, count a hundred.
- 11. Watch the small things.
- 12. Laziness is a vice—fight it.
- 13. Do your honest best—it pays.
- 14. Without self-respect you cannot gain respect.
- 15. Trickery's triumph is fleeting.
- 16. Remember that opportunity waits only on worth.
- 17. Cultivate love, loyalty and respect for work—especially your own work.
- 18. It is not enough to be honest and lazy.
- 19. Try to keep your mind clean—evil and success will not mix.
- 20. If responsibility confronts you, seize it. Do not throw it aside—responsibility represents opportunity.
Some of these sayings will strike you as very old and lacking in novelty. But, old as these rules are, human beings have not yet learned to follow them. And they won't learn for many a long year.
We shall not moralize about them all today, only one or two we want to emphasize.
"Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly."
If you work willingly, if you make yourself realize that willing effort is easy, AND THE ONLY KIND THAT MAKES YOU GROW AND SUCCEED, you will solve one of your big working problems.
Did you ever see a small boy walking ahead of a band, with the music playing?
And did you ever see the same small boy walking half the distance to get a newspaper for his father? Walking with the band rests him; it doesn't tire him at all, BECAUSE HE DOES IT WILLINGLY. And the other kind of walking takes the very heart out of him and makes him almost too tired to eat his dinner.