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The adventure of life is to learn.
William Arthur Ward
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William Arthur Ward
Age: 72 †
Born: 1921
Born: December 17
Died: 1994
Died: March 30
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Louisiana
United States
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Raised voices lower esteem. Hot tempers cool friendships. Loose tongues stretch truth. Swelled heads shrink influence. Sharp words dull respect.
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Real optimism has reason to complain but prefers to smile.
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What you believe is more important than what you possess. What you live is more lasting than what you profess. Whom you inspire is more significant than whom you impress.
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Everyone has a common, yet unique, responsibility to the future: to make the most of today.
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The more patient we are, the more understanding we become.
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The greatest failure is the failure to try.
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Commend while others are criticizing, persist while others are quitting
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If laser beams can cut through mountains, why should we doubt the power of prayer?
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Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
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The greatest ideas, the most profound thoughts, and the most beautiful poetry are born from the womb of silence
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Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.
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We are more than what we do... much more than what we accomplish... far more than what we possess.
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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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I have the opportunity, once more to right some wrongs, to pray for peace, to plant some trees, and sing more joyful songs.
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The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.
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Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair. From honest failure can come valuable experience.
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Opportunity is often difficult to recognize we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.
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A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.
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God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say 'thank you?'
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The essence of life is to care. The beauty of life is to give.
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