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There is one thing we can do better than anyone else: we can be ourselves.

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William Arthur Ward
Age: 72 †
Born: 1921
Born: December 17
Died: 1994
Died: March 30
Writer
Louisiana
United States
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Anyone
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Better

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The greatest failure is the failure to try.
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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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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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Happiness is an inside job.
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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 mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
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If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
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Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.
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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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Blessed is the person who sees the need, recognizes the responsibility, and actively becomes the answer.
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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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Forgiveness from others is charity from God, grace from oneself, wisdom.
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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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A second-class is a first-class mistake.
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A mediocre music teacher tells. A good music teacher explains. A superior music teacher demonstrates. A great music teacher inspires.
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A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.
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Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.
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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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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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America needs fewer men obsessed with erecting fences of hate, suspicion and name calling.
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