Work Ethic
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.