Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1920 — Pays to Give One’s Best [ARTICLE]

Pays to Give One’s Best

There Is a great difference between going just right and a little wrong—between superiority and mediocrity—between the fairly good and the best And there la something in the deter-

mination always to keep up the standards tn thought, or in whatever we do in life, whether it is hoeing corm mending shoes, or making laws for a nation—something that gives an upward tendency—an Inspiring quality, that is lacking in the character of the groveling man with low ideals. Thert is, in the upward struggle involved in giving one’s best to what one is doing, something that enlists and develops the highest faculties and calls out the truest and noblest. qualities. —Orison Swett Marden, in Chicago Newa.