A DAILY MESSAGE

Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1928, Page 1

A DAILY MESSAGE

i CLIMB !

11' you iiml a man or a woman occupying a high position in life, you may make up your mind that such a person didn’t fall there from above, 'hut climbed lip, rung by rung, from below, lie was once down on the dead level, will you and me.

A man cannot climb without a ladder —granted—but a man cannot climb nigh, even when the ladder is there, unless In l has something in addition to a ladder. The first thing he needs is the desire to climb. Th<> second thing is tlie determination to climb.

The third tiling is to begin, and to keep on climbing. Somebody said to an expert skater: “Ilow did you learn to skate so well!-' - ’ “By getting np every time 1 fell down,” was the reply. Ami the man who keeps moving up the ladder, in spite of all tlm obstacles tc-tfay, is the man who will sil securely at the top of tlie ladder 10-morrow.

Cyrils Field,, who laid the first Allantic cable, was asked: “I low did you accomplish the gigantic taskf” "By paying no attention to the people who said ‘ it. can’t lie done,’ ” he answered.

JL can he done, only it must lie begun; set your foot on the bottom rung and your eye on the top rung, and don’t measure your progress by tlie distance you have travelled from the bottom, hut by tlie distance you have to go to the top. The top can be reached only Imm the bottom—rung by rung.