Business men watch your progress, and if you have shown yourself capable, honorable, and prompt for a reasonable time, they are always ready to help you out in the time of adversity or bad luck.
It is policy to do this, and you may as well adopt the following idea also: “A man may be down today and up tomorrow. If he is down today and has credit of good repute, he will get up tomorrow through help extended to him. Otherwise he will be left where he falls.”
Stiffen Your Backbone and Keep on Climbing
The owner of a stiff backbone is not easily put down by adverse circumstances.
No man’s troubles overwhelm him unless he gives in to them weakly.
This is the experience of men since the world began: You must fight your way up and never look back to slipping places, for then you will surely stumble.
Worry is one of the symptoms of a weak backbone. Everybody should know that small stumbles are not killing matters to mourn over or worry about. You may have had in your own experience, many cases where your worries and anxieties proved nothing but phantoms. You think you will not survive until tomorrow, but you always see the sun shining the next day whatever befalls you today.
Things always come out as a rule much better than you expect, or dared hope.
If you have health and good friends to encourage you, why should you worry or fret over the things of life which are always small and insignificant?
Keep your eyes open and watch for another opportunity to wedge yourself back in, if you should happen to be crowded out of anything.