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Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future.

William Arthur Ward

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.
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD

Believe Important Inspirational Live Yourself
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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Accomplishment Challenge Death Experience Failure Honesty Ourselves
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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Faith Fear Feeling Freedom Friendship Possible Spirit Strength True Weakness
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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Acceptance Defeat Dignity Grace
Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.
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Failure Inspirational Man Planning Success
In the face of unjust criticism we can become bitter or better; upset or understanding; hostile or humble; furious or forgiving.
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Anger Choice Deep Forgiveness Understand
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
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Break Hard Time Man
Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.
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Faith Ocean See
Real optimism sees the negatives but accentuates the positive.
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Optimism Reality
Once trust is tarnished, it is hard to restore it to its original glow.
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Break Reality Trust
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
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Forgiveness Heart
Raised voices lower esteem. Hot tempers cool friendships. Loose tongues stretch truth. Swelled heads shrink influence. Sharp words dull respect.
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Deep Friendship Respect Truth Voice Word
Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.
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Inspirational Missing Opportunity Sun Wait
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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Feeling Gift Gratitude Health Light Morning Night
It is wise to direct your anger towards problems – not people; to focus your energies on answers – not excuses.
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Anger Direction Focus People Problem Wisdom
‘If only’ is the excuse of the loser; ‘I can’ is the affirmation of the winner.
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD

Failure Lose Winner

Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future.

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