A DAILY MESSAGE

Hokitika Guardian, 17 January 1929, Page 1

A DAILY MESSAGE

WILL IT! It takes nil sorts of people In make ;i world, we are told; lint I believe they could all lie classified under the heading of the Wills, the Won'ts, and the. Can’ts. The Wills catch up with everything they go after; the Won’ts oppose everything they meet; the C'aii’ts fail .in everything they touch. It is not superior ability which makes the Wills win. They win because they are "superior” in the will to win. It is not “inferior” ability which makes the Won’ts oppose everything; it is that, in doing so. they work against forces which would work - with them for success. It is not ability, but decision, which is lacking in the Cant’s; and, as'the C’au’ts never try. they never win. He who aims may sometimes hit the mark; hut he who never aims ran never get near it. Indecision is worse than rashness. The man who is forever hacking and filling, chopping and changing, hesitating and shuffling, weighing and balancing, will never accomplish anything. But the resolute man—the man wli “ wills ”—is a power anywhere and everywhere. He achieves. —AI. PRESTON STANLEY.