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A success is one who decided to succeed and worked. A failure is one who decided to succeed and wished.
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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In life, satisfaction is experienced when activities are brought to a state of completion. Loss of energy and loss of control are functions of incompletion. The result of completing things releases one's ability to create. Prioritize any items that need to be completed, set a completion date, then do it.
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The more generous we are, the more joyous we become.
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Success never resides in the world of weak wishes, but in the palace of purposeful plans and prayerful persistence.
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Nothing limits achievement like small thinking nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination.
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Delays, disappointments and defeats cause quitters to give up in resignation losers, to give in the frustration winners, to come through with determination.
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The regeneration of a sinner is an evidence of power in the highest sphere--moral nature with the highest prerogative--to change nature and operating to the highest result--not to create originally, which is great but to create anew, which is greater.
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If you would be interesting, be interested, if you would be pleased, be pleasing, if you would be loved, be loveable, if you would be helped be helpful.
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'If only' is the excuse of the loser 'I can' is the affirmation of the winner.
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A friend is one who joyfully sings with you when you are on the mountaintop, and silently walks beside you through the valley.
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The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change. The challenge of life is to overcome. The essence of life is to care. The opportunity of like is to serve. The secret of life is to dare. The spice of life is to befriend. The beauty of life is to give.
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