_THE COURAGE OF INDUSTRY_
ANYBODY can drift, but only the man or woman of courage can breast the
current, can fight on upstream.
It is so easy to be idle or to work listlessly. Average folks drift
heedlessly into occupations in which they have no special interest and
for which they have as little fitness. Most people waste their evenings
or use them to little profit: it never occurs to them that each day they
waste precious hours. They give more thought to schemes to do less work
than to attempts to increase output.
And so they show their weakness, their unfitness for bearing
responsibility, their cowardice when the world is calling for courage.
Worth-while work demands the finest kind of courage, and with perfect
fairness work gives back courage to those who put courage into it.
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