Timeless Secrets of Success | Frederick Douglass
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
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🗓️ 9 January 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Listen to episode 972 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Timeless Secrets of Success. Edited & adapted from the lecture Self-Made Men by Frederick Douglass.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Today, I would like to talk with you about success and the industrious spirit. Industry is the superficial and visible cause of success, but what is the cause of industry? When answering this question one element is easily pointed out, and that element is necessity...
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| 0:45.5 | On today's podcast, we will once again deliver an adaptation from Frederick Douglass's classic lecture entitled Self-Made Men, which was first delivered in 1859. |
| 0:57.0 | Today I would like to talk with you about success and the industrious spirit. |
| 1:13.4 | Industry is the superficial and visible cause of success. |
| 1:18.3 | But what is the cause of industry? |
| 1:22.0 | When answering this question, one element is easily pointed out, and that element is necessity. William Thackeray very |
| 1:32.7 | wisely remarked that all people are about as lazy as they can afford to be. They are not |
| 1:40.5 | only as lazy as they can afford to be, but I have found many who are a great deal |
| 1:45.8 | more so. |
| 1:48.1 | We all hate the taskmaster, but all people, however industrious, are either lured or lashed |
| 1:56.0 | through the world. |
| 1:58.0 | And we should be a lazy good-for-nothing set if we were not so lured and lashed. |
| 2:05.6 | Necessity is not only the mother of invention, but the mainspring of exertion. |
| 2:11.6 | The presence of some urgent pinching dire necessity will often not only sting a person into marvelous exertion, |
| 2:20.9 | but into a sense of the possession of powers and resources which else had slumbered on |
| 2:26.9 | through a long life, unknown to the individual, and never suspected by others. |
| 2:35.0 | A person never knows the strength of their grip till life and limb depend upon it. |
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