Gunnison Valley News | 1928-06-21 | Page 6 | Conceit and Timidity Bars to Advancement

:x-xxm-m-:xx-:x-;ix-M'MsxX':x-xxx-;-x-xox-:x-;-z-x;-x Conceit and Timidity Bars to Advancement cesses of obscurity of complete failure. fail-ure. There Is a sane middle ground upon which those who get anywhere worth while In life must ever stand. Neither conceit nor timidity will carry anyone very far. Honesty Is the best policy even In appraising one's own talents. Thrift Magazine. Henry Ward Beecher once called conceit "the most incurable disease known to the human soul." Conceit, however, is not to be confused con-fused with pride, self-respect or self-confidence. self-confidence. There Is merit In these qualities and many a man of limited abilities has stamped and pounded his way to the seats of the mighty. But the conceited man moves In quite a different realm. His Is simply an unreasoning, unfounded opinion of his own importance. He is a giant in a world of pygmies. Many men fall because of timidity and modesty. They secretly tell them selves that they don't amount to much, that they are mediocre and that nobody Is interested In their words or deeds. They slink Into the hidden re-