How to Make a Habit of Succeeding (Motivational series) by Mack Douglas

Author:Mack Douglas [Mack Douglas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-12-21T11:28:00+00:00

The decision is yours. Will you pay the price of persistent effort-never giving up, never wavering, never swerving from your purpose-always staying at it? You will succeed. Martin Luther changed the whole course of theological history. Remember his words, "It is neither safe nor prudent to do aught against conscience. Here I standI can do no otherwise. God help me. Amen."

No Man Is an Island

We become what the people we associate with are. Therefore your persistence in achieving a worthy purpose will be a part of the total triumph of good, the total triumph of democracy, the total triumph of all that's wholesome in your society. At the same time laziness is cancerous; it is catching. One person who has found that he can get by on the unemployed rolls is a challenge to others to do the same. All you have to do to fail is to do nothing. That's it. Simply drift downstream with the tide. But there is no power, no muscles, no strength, no character involved in that fatal activity. There is strength and character and power energized when we fight the stream, particularly when it is mountainous, turbulent, hard to go upstream.

Bogardus's book Leaders and Leadership2 has meant more to my life than possibly any other book except the Bible. In it Borgardus quotes Admiral Dewey, "Perhaps some boy may have since excelled me in the length of time that he could hold his head under water but my record was unbeaten in my day."

John Wesley, who traveled on horseback over land and by slow sail ship at sea, traveled a total of 250,000 miles in his lifetime, preaching as often as fifteen times a day throughout fifty years. "He had read books while making his horseback journeys and yet, when past eighty he complains that he cannot read and work more than fifteen hours a day." The doctors told him that he would have to slow down. He did-by only preaching eight times a day. Of Charlemagne, Bogardus said, "He was so hardy, they tell us, that he would hunt the wild bull singlehanded, so strong that he felled a horse and rider with one blow. Add to these external traits a tireless energy, an iron will, a keen love of order and of justice, deep-seated religious instincts and under all an exuberant animal nature; such is the man as he appeared to his contemporaries."

When Thomas A. Edison was working on the phonograph he had difficulty reproducing the letter S. He would work eighteen and twenty hours a day for weeks and weeks at a time before he came up with the solution. He would not quit.

Booker T. Washington said, "I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed."

The Priest Who Persevered

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