There is an infinite distance between the wishers and the doers. A mere desire is lukewarm water, which will never take the train to its destination; the purpose must boil, must be made into live steam to do the work. Who would have ever heard of Theodore Roosevelt outside of his immediate community if he had only half committed himself to what he had undertaken, if he had brought only a part of himself to his task? The great secret of his career has been that he flung his whole life, not a part of it, with all the dermination and energy and power he could muster, into everything he has undertaken. No dillydallying, no faint-hearted efforts, no lukewarm purpose for him!
--Orison Sweet Marden
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