Excerpt from The Will and the Way: A Guide to Self Help and Self Development
The men and women who have "done" great things in the world have been "great" believers, not so much believers in the world about them, not believers in the history of the past, but believers in their "own" possibilitis.
We are often contented to say: "I can't" do this or that, and are ready with the excuse that we are not exactly fitted or qualified for the accomplishment of some particular purpose, when the fact of the matter is that it is simply a lack of determination that stands as an obstruction in the way of the "full" expression of our "God-given powers."
Today men are attempting more than ever before in the world's history; and endeavor to achieve the greatest results in its various lines.
Not only in one department of the world's work do we find this awakening and falling into line, but in every field of endeavor. If we wish to climb the hills of achievement and be in company with those who are the potent factors in the progress of the time, we must become fully awakened to our own possibilities, formulate a definite purpose in life, fall in line and keep step with the wonderful advancement of the present.
No man has any valid reason for being at the foot of the ladder of success. We may conjure up reasons for failure, and seek comfort and sympathy in lieu of the satisfaction and exultation which come with the acquisition of our heart's desire, but in the final analysis of the proposition the ultimate is ever the same: somewhere there was a lack of definite plan in the undertakings which we sought to accomplish. The fault lay within ourselves. If the incentive of ambition does not awaken within us the desire to accomplish greater things than ever before; if we fail to note an increase in our capacities as the days go by. we may feel assured that we have suffered ourselves to drop out of line and loiter by the wayside, which means that if we do not hasten our lagging steps we will soon be far to the rear of the column of advancement.
The bootblack who goes forth with a brave heart, leaving behind him in the dreary home a little sister shivering in her insufficient clothing, telling her to be of good cheer, that he will work for her and soon find food and clothing to make her happy, shows a more conscious relationship to his source of being than hundreds of those situated in comfortable quarters, and his belief in his ability to accomplish his desires in the world has often enabled him to build mansions for his sister afterwards.
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