Law Of Attraction
It is only when I write with the fire of enthusiasm
burning in my heart that my writing impresses others favorably; and it is only
when I speak from a heart that is bursting with belief in my message,
that I can move my audience to accept that message.
IS there not food for thought in the fact that no newspaper has ever published any account of "Wild drinking parties" or other similar scandals in connection with the names of Edison, Ford, Rockefeller and most of the other really big fellows?
I would also have you read, aloud, the foregoing paragraph. Yes, I would have you commit it to memory. Even more than this, I would have you write it out and place it where it may serve as a daily reminder of a principle, nay, a law as immutable as the law of gravitation, without which you can never become a power in your chosen life-work.
There have been times, and many of them, when it appeared that if I stood by this principle it would mean starvation!
There have been times when my closest friends and business advisers have strongly urged me to shade my philosophy for the sake of gaining a needed advantage here and there, but somehow I have managed to cling to it, mainly, I suppose, for the reason that I have preferred peace and harmony in my own heart to the material gain that I might have had by a forced compromise with my conscience.
Strange as it may seem, my deliberations and conclusions on this subject of refusing to strangle my own conscience have seldom been based upon what is commonly called "honesty."
That which I have done in the matter of refraining from writing or speaking anything that I did not believe has been solely a question of honor between my conscience and myself. I have tried to express that which my heart dictated because I have aimed to give my words "flesh."
It might be said that my motive was based more upon self-interest than it was on a desire to be fair with others, although I have never desired to be unfair with others, so far as I am able to analyze myself.
No man can become a master salesman if he compromises with
falsehood. Murder will out, and even though no one ever catches him
red-handed in expressing that which he does not believe, his words
will fail in the accomplishment of their purpose because he cannot
give them "flesh," if they do not come from his heart, and if they are not mixed
with genuine, unadulterated enthusiasm.