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Success should not necessarily be gauged by always reaching the goal set, but by progress and attainment.

Spencer W. Kimball

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Spencer W. Kimball
Age: 90 †
Born: 1895
Born: March 28
Died: 1985
Died: November 5
Businessperson
Prophet
Salt Lake City
Utah
Reaching
Necessarily
Progress
Goal
Success
Always
Gauged
Attainment

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They who get off on tangents and ride hobby horses to death are they who become fanatic. Let them understand that they must be tolerant of others faults but never accept as justifiable their own.
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If you are going to err, err on the side of mercy.
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And you fathers, are you so busy making a living, playing golf, bowling, hunting, that you do not have time to talk to your boys and hold them close to you and win their confidence? Or do you brush them off, so that they dare not come and talk about these things with you?
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Procrastination-thou wretched thief of time and opportunity!
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