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Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

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

3.8 • 799 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Listen to episode 1033 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Courage to Be Successful. The Power of Mental Demand, and Other Essays by Herbert Edward Law.

Motivational Podcast Excerpt: COURAGE is the fundamental fact of success. It makes us strong in doing what we have resolved upon. Courage gives persistence, banishes weakness, displaces vacillation with steadiness of purpose, resolves doubt. It makes hesitancy and irresolution impossible. It sends us armed with confidence on our road to success.

Confidence and the expectation of success draw to us all the qualities and mental forces which contribute to success. Courage, therefore, is the vital element of success. A lack of courage creates mental difficulties; it constructs obstacles and barriers; it makes that seem impossible which, with the exercise of courage, will be entirely possible.

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1:37.7	Today's reading has been edited and adapted from the book, The Power of Mental
1:42.5	Demand and Other Essays essays by Herbert Edward Law,
1:47.0	published in 1916.
1:56.0	Courage is the fundamental fact of success.
2:00.0	It makes us strong in doing what we have resolved upon. Courage is the fundamental fact of success.
2:00.9	It makes us strong in doing what we have resolved upon.
2:05.9	Courage gives persistence, banishes weakness, displaces vacillation with steadiness of purpose,
2:14.5	resolves doubt.
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