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before water generates steam it must
register 212 degrees of heat 200 degrees
will not do it
210 will not do it the water must boil
before will generate enough steam to
move an engine to run a train lukewarm
water will not run anything a great many
people are trying to move their life
trains with lukewarm water or water
that's almost boiling and they're
wondering why they are stalled why they
cannot get ahead
they are trying to run a boiler with 200
or 210 degrees of heat and they cannot
understand why they do not get anywhere
lukewarmness and his work stands in the
same relation to a man's achievement as
lukewarm water does to the locomotive
boiler no man can hope to accomplish
anything great in this world until he
throws his whole soul flings the force
of his whole life into it in Philip
Brooks's talks to young people he used
to urge them to be something with all
their mind it is not enough simply to
have a desire to be something there is
but one way to accomplish it and that is
to strive to be somebody with all the
concentrated energy we can muster any
kind of human being can wish for a thing
can desire it but only strong vigorous
minds with great purposes can do things
there is an infinite distance between
the wishers and the doers a mere desire
is lukewarm water which never will take
a train to his destination the purpose
must boil must be made into live steam
to do the work
who would ever have heard of Theodore
Roosevelt outside his immediate
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community if he had only have committed
himself to what he had undertaken if he
had brought only a part of himself to
his task the great secret of his career
has been that his phone his whole life
not a part of it with all the
determination and energy and power he
could muster into everything is
undertaken no dilly-dallying no
faint-hearted efforts no lukewarm
purpose for him every life of power must
have a great master purpose
which takes precedence of all other
motives a supreme principle which is so
commanding and so imperative in its
demands for recognition and exercise
that there can be no mistake it's call
without this the water of energy will
never reach the boiling point the life
crane will not get anywhere
the man with the vigorous purpose is a
positive constructive creative force no
one can be resourceful inventive
original or creative without powerful
concentration and the undivided focusing
of the mind is only possible along the
wine of ambition the life purpose we
cannot focus the mind upon a thing we
are not interested in and enthusiastic
about a man ought to look upon his
career as a great artist looks upon his
masterpiece as an out pictures of his
best self upon which he dwells with
infinite pride and satisfaction which
nothing else can give you have many
people are so loosely connected with
their vocation that they are easily
separated from it
I know young men who seem anxious to get
on in their careers but in a single
evening they could be induced to give up
their calling for something else
they're always wondering whether they
are in the right place or where their
ability will count most they lose heart
on the strike obstacles or they become
discouraged when they hear of someone
else who has made a success in some
other line and wonder if they had not
better try something in the same line if
one is so loosely attached to his
occupation that it can be easily induced
to give it up you may be sure that he is
not in the right place if Nature has
called you to a position if the call
runs in your blood
it is a part of your life and you cannot
get away from it
it is not a separate thing from yourself
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it exists in every brain cell every
nerve cell every blood corpuscle contain
some of it you can no more get away from
it then a leopard can get away from his
spots so when a young man asks me if i
do not think he had better make a change
i feel very certain that he is not in
the place God called him to for the
thing he was made for
is as much a part of his real being as
his temperament it is near to him and
his heartbeat closer than his breath
there's a photograph of the thing he was
made for in every cell in his body he
cannot get away from it the thing which
will make the life distinctive which
will make it a power is the one supreme
thing which we want to do and feel that
we must do and no matter how long we may
be delayed from the same or how far we
may be swerved aside by mistakes or iron
circumstances we should never give up
hope for a determination to pursue our
object
some people have not the moral courage
the persistence the force of character
to get the things out of the way which
stand between them and their ambition
they allow themselves to be pushed this
way and that way into things for which
they have no fitness or taste their
willpower is not strong enough to enable
them to fight their way to their goal
they are pushed aside by the pressure
about them and do the things for which
they have little or no liking or
adaptation if there's anything in the
world a person should fight for it is
freedom to pursue is ideal because in
that is his great opportunity for
self-expression for the unfoldment of
the greatest thing possible to him it is
his great chance to make his life hell
in the largest completest way to do the
most original distinctive thing possible
to him if he does not pursue his ideal
does not carry out his supreme name his
life will be more or less a failure
no matter how much you may be actuated
by a sense of duty or how much you may
exert his will power to overcome his
handicap there is great power in a
resolution that has no reservation in it
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a strong persistent tenacious purpose
which burns all bridges behind it
clears all obstacles from its path and
arrives at its goal no matter how long
it may take no matter what the sacrifice
or the cost the inspiration of a great
positive aim
this forms the life and revolutionizes a
shiftless ambition lyst dissipated
good-for-nothing man as if some divine
energy had worked in him even as love
sometimes transforms a slovenly
purposeless course man into a clean
methodical diviner being when the
awakening power of a new purpose a
resolute aim is born in a man he is a
new creature he sees everything in a new
light
the doubts the fares the apathy the
vicious temptations which dog his steps
but yesterday the stagnation which had
lighted his past life all vanish as if
by magic they are dispelled by the
breath of a new purpose beauty and
system take the place of unsightly mess
and confusion order rains in the place
of a marquis all his slumbering
faculties awakened to activity the
effect of this new ambition is like the
clarifying change made by a waterway in
a stagnant swamp e-district the water
clarifies as soon as it begins to move
to do something for our spring up in
place of poisonous weeds and vegetation
beauty birds and song make joyous the
ones miasmic atmosphere chemist tell us
that when a compound is broken up an
atom is released from the attraction of
other atoms it takes on a new energy and
immediately seeks combination with
another free atom but the longer it
remains alone the weaker it becomes it
"law of attraction" attract create manifest purpose success
seems to lose much of its vitality and
power of attraction when idle when the
atom is first freed from the grasp of
its fellows it is called nasan newborn
it is then that it has its maximum of
gripping power and if it finds a free
atom immediately after it is released it
will unite with it with greater bigger
than ever the power seems to go out of
it if it delays its union with another
atom mythology tells us that Minerva the
goddess of wisdom sprang complete full
or full grown from Jupiter's brain man's
highest conception is most effective
thought most inventive and resource
all ideas and grandest visions bring
full orbed complete with their maximum
of power spontaneously from the brain
men who postpone their visions who delay
the execution of their ideas who bottle
up their thoughts to be used at a more
convenient time are always weaklings the
forceful vigorous effective men are
those who execute their ideas while they
are full of enthusiasm of inspiration
our ideas our visions are resolutions
come to us fresh every day because this
is the divine program for the day not
for tomorrow another inspiration new
ideas will come tomorrow today we should
carry out the inspiration of the day a
divine vision flashes across the
artist's mind with lightning like
rapidity but it is not convenient for
him to see his brush and fasten the
immortal vision before it fades he keeps
turning it over and over in his mind it
takes possession of his very soul but is
not in his studio or it is not
convenient to put his divine vision up
on campus and the picture gradually fade
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from his mind a strong vigorous
conception flashes into the brain of the
writer and he has an almost irresistible
impulse to seize his pen and transfer
the beautiful images and the fascinating
concept paper but it is not convenient
at the moment and while it seems almost
impossible to wait he postpones the
writing the images and the conception
keep haunting him but still he postpones
finally the visions grow dimmer and
dimmer and at last fade away and are
lost forever
there is a reason for all this why do we
have these strong vigorous impulses
these divine visions of splendid
possibilities
why do they come to us with such
rapidity and vigor such vividness and
suddenness it is because it is intended
that we shall use them all fresh execute
them well the inclination is hot
our ideas our visions are like manna
the wilderness which the Israelites were
obliged to gather fresh every day if
they undertook to hoard it became stale
the nourishment evaporated the life went
out of it they could not use old mana
there is something about allowing a
strong resolution to evaporate without
executing it that has a deteriorating
influence upon the character it is the
execution of a plan that makes stamina
almost anybody can resolve to do a great
thing it is only the strong determined
character that puts the resolve into
execution if we could only make our
highest moments permanent what splendid
things we should do in life and what
magnificent beans we should become but
letter resolutions cool our visions fade
until it's more convenient to execute
them and they're gone
there is no easier way in which one can
hypnotize or deceive himself than by
thinking that because he's always making
great resolutions he is doing something
worthwhile or carrying them out
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I know a man who would feel insulted if
anyone were to intimate that had not
been a hard worker and did not
accomplished a great deal in life and
yet although he is an able man his whole
life has been spent in jumping out of
one thing into another so quickly that
one could scarcely see the change it
every time you see him he carries his
head high
he is as enthusiastic and optimistic as
though his whole life had been won
triumphant march his enthusiasm is
intense but it fades away just as
quickly as it came the very fact that he
always lives in the clouds is always
dreaming of the great things he is going
to do seems to convince him that he
actually does them but he never stays at
one thing long enough to reach
effectiveness his whole life has been
spendin starting things brilliantly and
enthusiastically few men have ever begun
so many things as he or completed so few
the putting off habit will kill the
strongest initiative too much caution
and lack of confidence are fatal enemies
of initiative how much easier it is to
do a thing when the purpose in pain
lolz us when enthusiasm carries us along
then when everything drags in the
postponement one is drudgery the other
delight hungary and striving after
knowledge is what makes a scholar
hungary and striving after virtue is
what makes this ain't hungry and
starving after noble action is what
makes a hero a man the great successes
we see everywhere are but the
realization of an intense longing a
concentrated effort everyone is
gravitating toward his aim just in
proportion to the power and intensity of
his desire and his struggle to realize
it
one merely desires to do this or that or
wishes he could or would be glad if he
could another knows perfectly well that
if he lives he's going to do the thing
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he says his hard-on if it is within the
limits of human possibility we do not
hear him whining because nobody will pay
his way to college he does not say he
wishes to go
he says I'm going to prepare myself for
a great life work I have faith in my
future
I have made a vow to myself to succeed
and i am going to do so on a broad gauge
plan i'm not going to start out half
equipped a fitted i will have college
training when you find a boy who
resolves within himself that come what
will he is going to do the thing he says
his hard-on and that there are no ifs or
buts or ands about it you may be sure
he's made of winning stuff he will not
postpone and postpone the realization of
his vision until too late until his
glory has vanished he will lose an
old-time and putting forth all his
energy to make it real and if it is a
possible thing he will succeed
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