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William Arthur Ward
Age: 72 †
Born: 1921
Born: December 17
Died: 1994
Died: March 30
Writer
Louisiana
United States
Motivation
Dream
Work

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Today's patience can transform yesterday's discouragements into tomorrow's discoveries. Today's purposes can turn yesterday's defeats into tomorrow's determination.
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Each of us will one day be judged by our standard of life, not by our standard of living by our measure of giving, not by our measure of wealth by our simple goodness, not by our seeming greatness.
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Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.
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Every day is a good day to examine our prime-time priorities.
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Television remote controls encourage couch potatoes to exercise their options while broadening their base.
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Three enemies of personal peace: regret over yesterday’s mistakes, anxiety over tomorrow’s problems, and ingratitude for today’s blessings.
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Our words reveal our thoughts our manners mirror our self-esteem our actions reflect our character our habits predict the future.
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Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
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To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.
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Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.
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The greatest hazard in life is to risk NOTHING.
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A complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart.
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Excellence without effort is as futile as progress without preparation.
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Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions, knows about difficulties but believes they can be overcome, sees the negatives but accentuates the positives, is exposed to the worst but expects the best, has reason to complain but chooses to smile.
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Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.
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The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.
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Too many of us hear without heeding, read without responding, confess without changing, profess without practicing, worship without witnessing, and seek without sharing.
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The pessimist borrows trouble the optimists lend encouragement.
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The essence of life is to care. The beauty of life is to give.
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Words, like tranquil waters behind a dam, can become reckless and uncontrollable torrents of destruction when released without caution and wisdom.
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