What You Can Do With Your Will Power

H. Conwell Russell

Description

Renowned orator, minister, and founder of Temple University Russell Conwell was one of the most popular public speakers of his day. His message often focused on his belief that each and every one of us already possesses what it takes to succeed. In What You Can Do With Your Will Power, Conwell elucidates on this theme and gives readers practical steps to help them make the most of their inborn talent and potential.

Sujets

• Employabilité, métiers et formations

Informations

• Publié par: The Floating Press
• Date de parution: 01 mai 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781776533770
• Langue: English

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WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH YOUR WILL POWER
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RUSSELL H. CONWELL
 
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What You Can Do With Your Will Power First published in 1917 Epub ISBN 978-1-77653-377-0 Also available: PDF ISBN 978-1-77653-378-7 © 2014 The Floating Press and its licensors. All rights reserved. While every effort has been used to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the information contained in The Floating Press edition of this book, The Floating Press does not assume liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in this book. The Floating Press does not accept responsibility for loss suffered as a result of reliance upon the accuracy or currency of information contained in this book. Do not use while operating a motor vehicle or heavy equipment. Many suitcases look alike. Visit www.thefloatingpress.com
Contents
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Preface I - Success Has No Secret— II - There is a Deplorable Tendency— III - The Biography of that Great Patriot— IV - In a Small Town in Western Massachusetts—
Preface
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Other writers have fully and accurately described the road , and myonly hope is that these hastily written lines will inspire the youngman or young woman to arise and go .
I - Success Has No Secret—
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Success has no secret. Her voice is forever ringing through themarket-place and crying in the wilderness, and the burden of her cryis one word—WILL. Any normal young man who hears and heeds that cryis equipped fully to climb to the very heights of life.
The message I would like to leave with the young men and women ofAmerica is a message I have been trying humbly to deliver from lectureplatform and pulpit for more than fifty years. It is a message theaccuracy of which has been affirmed and reaffirmed in thousands of liveswhose progress I have been privileged to watch. And the message is this:Your future stands before you like a block of unwrought marble. You canwork it into what you will. Neither heredity, nor environment, nor anyobstacles superimposed by man can keep you from marching straightthrough to success, provided you are guided by a firm, drivingdetermination and have normal health and intelligence.
Determination is the battery that commands every road of life. It is thearmor against which the missiles of adversity rattle harmlessly. Ifthere is one thing I have tried peculiarly to do through these years itis to indent in the minds of the youth of America the living fact thatwhen they give WILL the reins and say "DRIVE" they are headed toward theheights.
The institution out of which Temple University, of Philadelphia, grewwas founded thirty years ago expressly to furnish opportunities forhigher education to poor boys and girls who are willing to work for it.I have seen ninety thousand students enter its doors. A very largepercentage of these came to Philadelphia without money, but firmlydetermined to get an education. I have never known one of them to goback defeated. Determination has the properties of a powerful acid; allshackles melt before it.
Conversely, lack of will power is the readiest weapon in the arsenal offailure. The most hopeless proposition in the world is the fellow whothinks that success is a door through which he will sometime stumble ifhe roams around long enough. Some men seem to expect ravens to feedthem, the cruse of oil to remain inexhaustible, the fish to come rightup over the side of the boat at meal-time. They believe that life is aseries of miracles. They loaf about and trust in their lucky star, andboldly declare that the world owes them a living.