Sublime

‘with malice toward none, with charity for all,’

“Every successful person I’ve met has a strong sense of his or her unique abilities and aspirations. They’re leaders in their own lives, and they dare to pursue their dreams on their own terms.”

All a man has to do, is to better what he can. And if he will settle it with himself, that even renown and success are in themselves of no great value, and be content to be defeated, if so be that the fault is not his; and so go to his work with a cool brain and a strong will, he will get it done; and fare none the worse in the end, that he was not

“Personal confidence comes from making progress toward goals that are far bigger than your present capabilities.”

a life of doing good for others is actually the most exciting life, for God calls us to find ways of doing good with a sense of creativity, competence, and adventure.

Whether you’re serving a community you belong to, or making your local neighborhood safer, or setting your family up for success, or spreading the truth when others undermine it, or inventing a new way to do things, or helping just one person who might otherwise struggle—these are the very things you are called by the future to do.

Aristotle, who is attributed with saying, ‘Where the needs of the world and your talents cross, there lies your vocation.’

to look for ways to help people feel more confident