Tommy Newberry's Blog

The 19th century success pioneer, Orison Swett Marden wrote, “The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorsefully to bring out our possibilities. She will strip us of wealth, humble our pride, humiliate our ambition, let us down from the ladder of fame, will discipline us in a thousand ways, if she can develop a little character. Everything must give way to that. Wealth is nothing. Position is nothing. Fame is nothing. Character is everything.”

In America, we are all rich with choice. And our choices reveal who we really are. We have unprecedented freedom to make ourselves and our lives into something that excites and pleases us. If we can’t make it here, we can’t make it anywhere. As Americans, we can also earn inequality with fellow citizens as a natural result of deliberately developing our character. However, we are living in a time characterized by a surplus of information but an obvious deficit of wisdom. Consequently, many essential principles and assumed truths from generations past have been packed away and abandoned, not only on the national level but on the personal level as well.

If we do rejuvenate this great land, it will be principles, not programs that make it happen. We must return to the sound fundamentals of success both as individuals and as a nation. The founding fathers knew that for the American experiment to last, it would require the election of virtuous leaders and for this to be possible, those who elect our leaders must be virtuous as well. The former cannot work without the latter.

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