The Individual’s Task
Many of us think if we only had some other person’s talent or opportunities; if we only had the advantages of some other fellows near us; if only we were superbly equipped with facilities for our particular work, that we would do wonderful things. Now, the Creator never sent any one into this world without equipping him with just the tools required for the job. He meant him to do, the job which He qualified him in every respect to do. He did not sharpen the tools for us, because if He had done that He would have deprived us of the very thing that is designed for our expansion and growth. It is by drawing out all that is within us, by bettering our work each day, by overcoming obstacles, clearing away the rubbish and mental debris that choke our growth, and always reaching up to the attainment of our highest ideal, that, day by day, we unfold layer after layer of the wealth of ability that is unfolded in every human being, no matter what his apparent disabilities or handicaps.
--Orison Swett Marden
Editorial page of the Sandhill Citizen, Southern Pines, N.C., Oct. 26, 1923
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