Precept & Practice – FEBRUARY 8 – Determination
The race is divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire ‘Why wasn’t it done the other way?’
0. W. Holmes
The world belongs to the energetic man. His will gives him new eyes. He sees expedients and means where we saw none.
R. W. Emerson
I go at what I am about as if there was nothing else in the world for the time being. That is the secret of all hard-working men.
Reverend C. Kingsley
For where he fixt his heart he set his hand
To do the thing he will’d and bore it through.
Alfred Tennyson
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From the Introduction to Precept and Practice
The kindly welcome given to my other little books, ‘Being and Doing’ and ‘Character and Conduct,’ must be my excuse for adding another collection of extracts to the number now in circulation.
The quotations are gathered from the books of many earnest thinkers, and deal with Life in all its length and breadth, with ourselves, our characters, our plain unvarnished faults and weaknesses, our often untoward circumstances, and with all that drags us down;- with our purposes, our religion, our love and friendships, and with all that uplifts us;- with our relation to others, our influence and responsibilities, and finally with those stages of our journey which bring us to the Road’s Last Turn and to the Silent Land.
CONSTANCE M. WHISHAW
Suffolk Vicar 