I just read this story to my kids last night from The Children’s Treasury of Virtues. It represents an attitude we need more of and that all of us should have.
The story is called “It Can Be Done.” Here it is:
Brave people think things through and ask, “Is this the best way to do this?” Cowards, on the other hand, always say “It can’t be done.”
The man who misses all the fun
Is he who says, “It can’t be done.”
In solemn pride he stands aloof
And greets each venture with reproof.
Had he the power he’d efface
The history of the human race;
We’d have no radio or motor cars,
No streets lit by electric stars;
No telegraph or telephone,
We’d linger in the age of stone.
The world would sleep if things were run
By men who say, “It can’t be done.”