A DAILY MESSAGE

Hokitika Guardian, 9 May 1929, Page 1

A DAILY MESSAGE

PAY THE PRICE! Mow many men want tilings in life, for which they are not prepared to pay the price. Of course, they don’t get them, and as a consequence they blame Fate. How many men miss the big tilings they want in life, just because they won’t give up wanting the little things. They got the little tilings for the same reason that they miss the big ones—they pay tlie price for them. The price of achievement is not paid in money, hut in service, patience, perseverance, initiative, industry, determination, and faith. flow often, too, part of the price has: to lie paid in sacrifice—in a renunciation of those minor hopes, aims, and desires which are opposed to the. attainment of the great desire. 'Every successful person lias had to renounce some tilings lor others—minor for major, lessor for greater. You, too, must pay the price of the big tilings you want. You can achieve them only by a renunciation of the little tilings. • Your great wants demand the sacrifice oil many of your lesser wants, lor your lesser wants are using up much ol the energy necessary for the achieve incut of your great wants. jiv sacrificing, renouncing, extinguishing your minor wants you pay part of the price for your greater wants; for in that way you give t your will.that one-pointed power, which then, like the mariner’s needle, points steadily to the North Pole of your desire, and which will carry you inevitably to the one big thing on which your mind, will, energy, heart, and hope is set. —M. PRESTON STANLEY