The Victorious Attitude | The Habit of Acting Like a Lion

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds. More praises will certainly go to people who accomplish tough things not simple ones. The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), two American brothers, inventors, and aviation pioneers are credited with inventing and building the world’s first successful airplane and making the first controlled, powered and sustained heavier-than-air human flight, on December 17, 1903.



In one of Dr. Orison’s precious books, he wrote that “To be a conqueror in appearance, in one’s bearing, is the first step toward success.” This one sentence can build more than 200 pages paper. Did you ever think of winning peoples’ mind in the way you appear? If you appear a hero, you will certainly be a hero. If you appear a coward, there you are.
Confidence
The attitude of being a conqueror in appearance and in one’s bearing inspires confidence in others as well as in oneself. Walk, talk and act as though you were a somebody, and you are more likely to become such. Let victory speak from your face and express itself in your manner. Carry yourself like one who is conscious he has a splendid mission, a grand aim in life. Radiate a hopeful, expectant, cheerful atmosphere. In other words, be a good advertisement of the winner you are trying to be.



Our manner and our appearance are determined by our mental outlook. If we see only failure ahead we will act and look like failures. We have failed. If we expect success, see it waiting for us a little bit up the road, we will act and look like successes. We have already succeeded. The failure attitude loses; the victorious attitude wins.
The spirit in which you face your work, undertaking or project, in which you meet your problem, whether you approach it like a conqueror, with courage, a vigorous resolution, with firmness, or with timidity, doubt, fear, will determine whether your career will be one grand victory or a complete failure.



It is a great thing so to carry yourself wherever you go that when people see you coming they will say to themselves, “Here comes a winner! Here is a man who dominates everything he touches.”
There is no philosophy by which a man can do a thing when he thinks he can’t. What can defeat a strong man who believes in himself and cannot be ridiculed down, talked down, or written down? Poverty cannot dishearten him, misfortune deter him, or hardship turn him a hair’s breadth from his course. Whatever comes, he keeps his eye on the goal and pushes ahead.
Faith
Faith believes; doubt fears. Faith creates; doubt destroys. Faith opens the door to all things desirable in life; doubt closes them. Faith is an arouser, an awakener of our creative forces. It opens the door of ability and arouses creative energies. No one can rise higher than his faith. No one can do a greater thing than he believes he can.



When we begin to exercise self-faith, self-confidence, we are stimulating and increasing the strength of the faculties which enable us to do the thing we have set our heart on doing. Our faith causes us to concentrate on our object, and thus develops power to accomplish it. Faith tells us that we may proceed safely, even when our mental faculties see no light or encouragement ahead. But we must always be sure that it is faith, and not merely egotism or selfish desire that is urging us.
The man who does not see the Designer behind the design everywhere, who does not see the mighty Intelligence back of every created thing, cannot have that sublime faith which buoys up the great achievers and civilization-builders.
Believe it Where there is Faith there is Love, Where there is Love there is Peace, Where there is Peace there is God, and Where there is God there is no need.
How long will it take a young man to become successful who puts himself in an atmosphere of failure and remains in it until he is soaked, saturated, with the idea? How long will it take a man who depreciates himself, talks failure, thinks failure, walks like a failure and dresses like a failure; who is always complaining of the insurmountable difficulties in his way, and whose every step is on the road to failure – how long will it take to arrive at the success goal? Will anyone believe in him or expect him to win?



The majority of failures began to deteriorate by doubting or depreciating themselves, or by losing confidence in their own ability. The moment you harbor doubt and begin to lose faith in yourself, you capitulate to the enemy. Every time you acknowledge weakness, inefficiency, or lack of ability, you weaken your self-confidence, and that is to undermine the very foundation of all achievement.