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'm finally ready to own my own power, to say, "This is who I am." If you like it, you like it. And if you don't like it, you don't. So watch out; I'm gonna fly.
Good things aren't supposed to just fall into your lap. God is very generous, but He expects you to do your part first.
My wrestling dream was to become a Division I national champion. That was my No. 1 dream - not Olympics, not money. Just winning that tournament.
Effort is between you, and you, and nobody elseI'm pissed off for greatness. Cause if you ain't pissed off for greatness, that just means you're okay with being mediocre, and ain't no man in here okay with just basic.
Resolutions require only words. Results take action.
Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mother of great deeds.
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