Why You Fail
Improvement Era, vol. 9, no. 10, August 1906, p. 771
Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
WHY YOU FAIL. "Why is it that you work yourself up into a fine frenzy and determine to do such great things to-day, and to-morrow your resolution has evaporated? You say that the thing that seemed so easy and certain yesterday seems so hard and well-nigh impossible to-day. The chances are ninety-nine out of a hundred that the obstruction that keeps you from carrying out your resolution is your unwillingness to buckle down to your task and pay the price in hard work for the thing you think you want. There is a vast gulf between the mere desire for a thing and the resolution to have it.— Success.