The more patient we are, the more understanding we become.
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARDOptimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and attain the impossible.
More William Arthur Ward Quotes
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Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
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Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.
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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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The pessimist borrows trouble; the optimists lend encouragement.
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The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
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Happiness is an inside job.
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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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Real optimism sees the negatives but accentuates the positive.
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Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement.
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Everyone has a common, yet unique, responsibility to the future: to make the most of today.
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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.
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We can be resentful of our age, or we can be grateful for having attained it.
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Forgiveness from others is charity; from God, grace; from oneself, wisdom.
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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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If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
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