The Power of Purpose

The Power of Purpose by William George Jordan

The chapters comprising The Power of Purpose are selected from the author's larger work The Crown of individuality
I. Power of Individual Purpose
II. The Inspiration of Possibilities
III. Facing the Mistakes of Life
IV. When We Forget the Equity
V. The Crown of Individuality
VI. Optimism that Really Counts
VII. The Dark Valley of Prosperity

...Purpose makes man his own second creator and by it he can make himself largely what he will. He can choose his own realm: he can live contentedly in the mud of low desires like a lizard or sweep boldly high in the pure, inspiring, bracing air of noble ideals like an eagle rightfully claiming the mountain tops as its own.....