A DAILY MESSAGE

Hokitika Guardian, 19 November 1928, Page 1

A DAILY MESSAGE

BELIEVE !

Rkljlkvr ! In whom:' Yourself, and you will compel belief in others. Re afraid of yourself, afraid to trust your own judgment, and everybody else will be afraid to trust it too. You know yourself better than your neighbour does, and if what you know doesn’t inspire you with confidence, how do you hope to inspire contidenee iu the person next door? It isn’t entirely a mailer ol brains. Large confidence and moderate rapacity will travel 'faster and lari her Ilian great capacity and lilt In contidenee. The man of brilliant powers without purpose and a goal is olton mil paced by the dull man with purpose and a goal. But it is the power ol I lie plus I bat makes i lie pace. The world makes way lor the person who knows bis goal, but Lite is an obstacle race for the man who is uncertain of his dost illat ion, and the obstacles will beat him. Men succeed in proportion to the reality of their vision and the strength olf their purpose. All the great leaders have clung to their course through incredible dilliculties and obstacles, unmindful whether the goal was in sight or in blankest obscurity. They moved ever lorward to their goal as did Columbus, when, even in the face of mutiny and threats, he persisted .in going on with bis search for a. New World, and when lie wrote daily in bis log-book: “This day wo sailed west, because it was our course.” This way lay bis goal, and only deatli could daunt bis purpose or deviate bis course. Columbus reached bis goal; and so will you, if you have one— plus a | purpose ! j

—M RRESTON STANLEY