Show The Want of Self Confidence There are some who never seem to be lieve themselves capable of anything they see others press forward to attempt and achieve and shrink back into a desponding de-sponding inactivity Having no faith in themselves they undertake nothing and effect nothing If they are convicted of some fault or bad habit they have so little hope of being able to cure it that they scarcely make an effort If ome avenue of usefulness and honor opens up before them they draw back almost sure that they should succeed not succec and decline to enter en-ter If some duty presses urgently upon their conscience they try to quiet its promptings by pleading inability Thus their lives pass away in uselessness their faculties do not develop or their characters improve their abilities are wasted they dwindle into insignificance and all this not for lack of power but for the want of a confidence and courage that would set that power into good practical working order 2ew York Ledger |