"If you try the best you can, you can be whatever you want" --- solemn pledge or empty promise?

Question

"If you try the best you can, you can be whatever you want" --- solemn pledge or empty promise?

Answer 1

Solemn pledge...

“Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”

—Pope John XXIII (1881-1963), 261st Pope of the Roman Catholic Church

Answer 2

However it turns up depends on whether we take the saying with a grain of salt and little faith,  or whether we take it to heart, and start to move mountains.

Answer 3

for me, it's words of wisdom. [:

Answer 4

Hollow advice.  It does not work most of the time.  There are instances when you do your utmost best, still, nothing comes out of your efforts.  You have to consider outside factors. No matter how determined you may be or how focused you might be if there are outside interventions you only get frustrations in your attempt/s to be whatever you want.  My philosophy is: do what you can and let God do the rest.

Answer 5

Your solemn pledge.