Assessing One’s Possibilities When
the Motive is Noble and the Will is Strong
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
There is nothing, I hold, in the way of
work
That a human
being may not achieve
If he does not
falter, or shrink or shirk,
And more than all,
if he will believe.
Believe in
himself and the power behind
That stands like
an aid on a dual ground,
With hope for
the spirit and oil for the wound,
Ready to
strengthen the arm or mind.
When the motive
is right and the will is strong
There are no
limits to human power;
For that great
force back of us moves along
And takes us
with it, in trial’s hour.
And whatever the
height you yearn to climb,
Tho’ it never
was trod by the foot of man,
And no matter
how steep - I say you can,
If you will be
patient - and use your time.
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The poem “Limitless” was published in our associated websites on 27 July
2018. It was reproduced from the book “Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox”,
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Edinburgh, UK, W. P. Nimmo, Hay, & Mitchell,
undated edition, probably 1917, 527 pp., see p. 121.
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