There is one thing we can do better than anyone else: we can be ourselves.
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARDFlatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
More William Arthur Ward Quotes
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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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A true friend knows your weaknesses but shows you your strenghs; feels your fears but fortifies your faith; sees your anxieties but frees your spirit; recognizes your disabilities but emphasizes your possibilities.
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Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and attain the impossible.
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Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.
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Forgiveness from others is charity; from God, grace; from oneself, wisdom.
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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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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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A complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart.
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Once trust is tarnished, it is hard to restore it to its original glow.
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The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.
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We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
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‘If only’ is the excuse of the loser; ‘I can’ is the affirmation of the winner.
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The greatest failure is the failure to try.
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Man, like the bridge, was designed to carry the load of the moment, not the combined weight of a year at once.
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The more patient we are, the more understanding we become.
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