The Magic of Possibilities | Thinking Big For Success
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2016
⏱️ 16 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Listen to episode 56 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Magic of Possibilities (Thinking Big For Success). Adapted from The Power of Purpose by William George Jordan.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: We are placed into life not a finality, but a beginning; not a manufactured article, but raw material; not a statue, but an unpolished stone, ready alike for the firm chisel of defined purpose or the subtle attrition of circumstances and conditions.
It is only what you make of yourself that really counts. You must disinfect your mind from that weakening thought that you have an absolutely predetermined capacity, like a freight-car with its weight and tonnage painted on the side. You are growing, expansive, unlimited: self-adjusting to increased responsibility, progressively able for large duties and higher possibilities as you realize them and live up to them. You should feel this sense of the limitless — physically, mentally, morally, spiritually.
There is none so obscure that they cannot make the lives of those around them marvelously changed, brightened, and inspired, if they would merely progressively live up to their expanding possibilities in the way of kindness, thoughtfulness, cheer, good-will, influence, and optimism....
Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/inspirational-living/donations
Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast, brought to in part by Book of Zen, |
| 0:17.6 | makers of inspirational fashion and gift ideas. |
| 0:23.3 | Visit them online at book of zen.com. |
| 0:32.3 | Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from The Power of Purpose by William George Jordan, published in 1910. Some people like to wander in the cemetery of their past errors, to reread the old epitaphs, and spend |
| 0:47.4 | hours in mourning over the grave of a wrong. This new mistake does not antidote the old one. |
| 0:58.0 | The remorse that paralyzes hope, corrode purpose, and deadens energy is not moral health. |
| 1:02.0 | It is an indigestion of the soul that cannot assimilate an act. |
| 1:07.0 | It is a selfish, cowardly surrender to the dominance of the past. It is lost motion in |
| 1:15.4 | morals. It does no good to the individual, to the injured, to others, or to the world. |
| 1:23.6 | If the past be unworthy, live it down. If it be worthy, live up to it and surpass it. |
| 1:32.6 | Omnipotence cannot change the past, so why should we try? Our duty is to compel that past to |
| 1:40.6 | vitalize our future with new courage and purpose, making it a larger, greater future than |
| 1:46.6 | would have been possible without the past that has so grieved us. |
| 1:52.0 | If we can get real, fine dividends from our mistakes, they prove themselves not losses, |
| 1:59.0 | but wise investments. They seem like old shares of stock laid aside in the |
| 2:06.1 | lavender of memory of our optimism, and now, by some sudden change in the market of speculation, |
| 2:14.4 | proved to be of real value. |
| 2:19.7 | Realizing mistakes is good. |
| 2:22.1 | Acting on them is better. |
| 2:27.0 | When a captain finds his vessel is out of the right channel, |
| 2:30.4 | carried by negligence, by adverse winds, |
| 2:33.3 | or by blundering through a fog from the true course, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Living Hour, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Living Hour and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.