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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.
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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Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.
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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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To make mistakes is human to stumble is commonplace to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
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Whatever gets your goat gets your attention. Whatever gets your attention gets your time. Whatever gets your time gets you. Whatever gets you becomes your master. Take care, lest a little thing horn in and get your goat
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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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Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day!
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A success is one who decided to succeed and worked. A failure is one who decided to succeed and wished.
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A religion without the Holy Ghost, though it had all the ordinances and all the doctrines of the New Testament, would certainly not be Christianity.
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To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.
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The pessimist borrows trouble the optimists lend encouragement.
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The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.
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Blessed is the person who sees the need, recognizes the responsibility, and actively becomes the answer.
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Study while others are sleeping work while others are loafing prepare while others are playing and dream while others are wishing.
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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.
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Love is more than a noun-it is a verb it is more than a feeling-it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing.
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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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Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.
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Everyone has a common, yet unique, responsibility to the future: to make the most of today.
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For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends... Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
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