Sources of Persistence

In such instances as we have recounted, men have found that persistenteffort along certain lines has had the effect of making presentlyavailable what would otherwise be simply unused storage batteries ofreserve power. What was the source and inspiration for this persistenteffort?

You will say that it was ambition or patriotism or some similarsemi emotional influence. And so it was. But what is ambition, what ispatriotism, what is any desire but a picturing to the mind's eye ofthe things desired, an awakening of a mental image of the result tobe attained, the reward that is to follow certain efforts? And thesemental pictures coming into consciousness have brought with them theirassociated emotions and their associated impulses to muscular action,impulses appropriate to the picture and automatically tending to workits realization .

These impulses constitute the whole of man's achieving power. They arethe Initiative Energy of all Success.
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