Orison Swett Marden

The Victorious Attitude Orison Swett Marden

The victorious, triumphant attitude will put you in command of resources which a timid, self-depreciating, failure attitude will drive from you. This was well illustrated by a visitor to the Athenæum Library in Boston. Ignorant of the fact that members only were entitled to its special privileges, this visitor entered the place with a confident bearing, seated herself in a comfortable window seat, and spent a delightful morning reading and writing letters. In the evening she called on a friend and in the course of conversation, referred to her morning at the Athenæum. "Why, I didn't know you were a member!" exclaimed the friend. "A member! No," said the lady. "I am not a member.