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Be The Best of Whatever You Are

A wonderful poem about being the best at whatever you do. The poet does a great job in making you realize that it does matter what you do, but what matters is how you do it. We hope you enjoy the inspirational words of wisdom that this poetry has to offer.

Motivational Poem
Be The Best of Whatever You Are

Poet: Douglas Malloch

If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill,
Be a scrub in the valley-but be

The best little scrub by the side of the rill;
Be a bush if you can't be a tree.

If you can't be a bush be a bit of the grass,
And some highway happier make;

If you can't be a muskie then just be a bass-
But the liveliest bass in the lake!

We can't all be captains, we've got to be crew,
There's something for all of us here,

There's big work to do, and there's lesser to do,
And the task you must do is the near.

If you can't be a highway then just be a trail,
If you can't be the sun be a star;

It isn't by size that you win or you fail-
Be the best of whatever you are!

More words of wisdom about being the best:
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. Oprah Winfrey

I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. Abraham Lincoln


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