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?
If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don't back down.
The secret to changing your life is in your intentions. Wishing, hoping and goal setting cannot accomplish change without intention. What is needed is a shift from the inert energy of wanting to the active energy of doing and intention.
The persistent man with a poor plan stands a better chance of winning than the man with a perfect plan who hesitates and waivers in carrying it out.
If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.
You hit a wall at some stage when you don't want it so bad, but you don't know when that's going to be - as far as competition or as far as health is concerned. Sometimes it's just natural. You just taste it, and you want it so bad that you find other gears.
Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.
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