Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly adds to our power and enlarges our field of action.
Interpretation
Strong emotions and thoughts empower us and expand our capacity to act.
Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes that the intensity of our feelings and thoughts has a significant impact on our ability to take action and influence others. When we approach life with vigor and passion, we stimulate not only our own power but also inspire those around us, creating a ripple effect that enhances our collective potential to effect change.
In practice
In a motivational speech to encourage a group to take action toward their goals.
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops or atoms that make or give this virtue; but it is the right or healthy state of every man, when he is free to do that which is constitutional to him to do.
Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations
Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakeably meant for his ear.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Hast thou named all the birds without a gun?
I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: βthe ordeal is part of the commitment.β Itβs one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.
Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction
Guys who might not be superstars but because of their hustle, because of the little things they do, these are the guys who can really mean the difference between winning and losing.
I am unlimited in my own ability to create the good in my life.
No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
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