We are challenged on every hand to work untiringly to achieve excellence

in our life work. Not all men are called to specialized or professional

jobs; even fewer rise to the heights of genius in the arts and sciences;

many are called to be laborers in factories, fields, and streets. But no

work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and

importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence . If a

man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep even as

Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote

poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and

earth will pause to say, “Here lived a great street sweeper who did his

job well.”

– Martin Luther King, Jr.