BE THE BEST OF WHAT YOU ARE.

My father once said that in life one must discover what their
calling is. And when they do, they must do their jobs so well
that the living, the dead or the unborn can do them no better.
He constantly challenged us to become our best by stating that
if you cannot be a pan on the top of the hill, why just be a
shrub in the valley? Be the best little shrub on the side of the
road; be a bush if you cannot be a tree. If you cannot be the
highway, just be a trail; if you cannot be the sun, just be a star.
For it is not by size that you win or fail. You got to be the best of
what you are.

Finally Martin Luther King, Jr. said that in life, "If it falls ever
your lot to be a street sweeper, you must sweep streets so well.
In fact, you must sweep streets like Beethoven composed music;
sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry; sweep streets like
Raphael painted pictures; sweep streets so well that all the
hopes of the heavens and earth would have to pause and say,
"Here lived the great street sweeper that did his job well.”

-Martin Luther King Junior 3