Self-Development and the Way to Power by L. W. Rogers (best classic romance novels .TXT) 📕

fortunately, anylacking quality can be evolved and if one does not possess these threenecessities his first work is to create them. These three things arean ardent desire, an iron will and an alert intelligence. Why arethese three qualifications essential to success and what purpose dothey serve?

Desire is nature's motor power--the propulsive force that pusheseverything forward in its evolution. It is desire that stimulates toaction. Desire drives the animal into the activities that evolve itsphysical body and sharpen its intelligence. If it had no desire itwould lie inert and perish. But the desire for food, for drink, forassociation with its kind, impel it to action, and the result is theevolution of strength, skill and intelligence in proportion to theintensity of its desires. To gratify these desires it will acceptbattle no matter how great may be the odds against it and willunhesitatingly risk life itself in the combat. Desire not only inducesthe activity that develops physical strength