Every man's task [his 'great dream' and impassioned life-goal] is his life preserver.
Interpretation
A person's life goal serves as their source of strength and survival.
This quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson emphasizes the importance of having a significant purpose or dream in life. It suggests that pursuing one's passions and goals can provide the motivation and resilience needed to navigate life's challenges, much like a life preserver that keeps a person afloat in difficult waters.
In practice
During a motivational speech about pursuing dreams.
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?
There is no substitute for hard work. If you're looking for the easy way, if you're looking for the trick, you might get by for a while, but you will not be developing the talents that lie within you. There is simply no substitute for work.
Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.
Don't ask for security, ask for adventure
Don't you quit! You keep walking. You keep trying. There is help & happiness ahead.
We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!
The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
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