Overcoming Even Insurmountable Difficulties

Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

The Living Hour

Health & Fitness, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 9 July 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Listen to episode 917 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Overcoming Even Insurmountable Difficulties. Edited and adapted from How to Get On in the World by Major A.R. Calhoun.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Courage, combined with energy and perseverance, will overcome difficulties apparently insurmountable. It gives force and impulse to effort and does not permit it to retreat. Tyndall said of Faraday, that (quote) "in his warm moments he formed a resolution, and in his cool ones he made that resolution good."

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0:00.0	Hi, this is David. Have you thought about starting a retail business? When you think about
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1:13.0	Shopify.com slash inspirational. Welcome to the Inspirational Living Podcast.
1:35.8	Today's reading was edited and adapted from How to Get On in the World by Major A. R. Calhoun, published in 1895.
1:51.0	Thomas Carlyle said that the first requisite to success is carefully to find your life work, and then bravely carry it out.
2:04.2	No soldier who won a succession of triumphs, nor business person who reached the top,
2:11.8	did not find their beginning slow, arduous, and discouraging.
2:18.3	Courage is a prime essential to prosperity.
2:22.3	Your progress may be slow in comparison with your ambition,
2:27.3	but if you keep a brave heart and stick persistently to it,
2:33.3	you will surely succeed in the end.
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