Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
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Well, any effort to maximize your potential and ability is a good thing.
It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.
Patience and time do more than strength or passion.
It takes a great deal of strength to be an optimist.
We set ourselves limits, but we are all strong enough to aim higher, to achieve our goals. All we have to do is find such strength within ourselves. Know how to develop it.
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.
If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities.
Others can challenge and motivate us, but we must reach down deep into our souls and call forth our God-given intelligence and capabilities. We cannot do this when we depend on the efforts of someone else.
Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
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