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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.

William Arthur Ward

A success is one who decided to succeed and worked. A failure is one who decided to succeed and wished.
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD

Decision Failure Inspirational Success
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
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
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Human Laugh Mistake Wisdom
Everyone has a common, yet unique, responsibility to the future: to make the most of today.
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Deep Future Responsibility
Once trust is tarnished, it is hard to restore it to its original glow.
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Break Reality Trust
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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Joy Myself Opportunity Peace Plant Prayer Right Sing Tree Wrong
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
Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have.
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Day Live
A pinch of praise is worth a pound of scorn. A dash of encouragement is more helpful than a dipper of pessimism. A cup of kindness is better than a cupboard of criticism.
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD

Encouragement Kindness Praise
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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Care Feeling Generosity Love Sacrifice
Three enemies of personal peace: regret over yesterday’s mistakes, anxiety over tomorrow’s problems, and ingratitude for today’s blessings.
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Anxiety Blessing Enemy Gratitude Mistake Peace Regret
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
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Change Expectation Perspective Reality
The essence of life is to care. The beauty of life is to give.
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Care Generosity Life
The greatest failure is the failure to try.
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Failure Greatness Try
We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.
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Learning Wisdom Word
Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and attain the impossible.
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Challenge Future Impossible Present
Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”
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Blessing Change Gratitude Job Joy Opportunity Ordinary Transformation
Happiness is an inside job.
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Happiness Job One Liner
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
Flatter 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.
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD

Believe Force Ignorance Love Myself Praise Yourself
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
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Best Discover Ourselves Seek
The more patient we are, the more understanding we become.
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Attitude Patience Understand
Success never resides in the world of weak wishes, but in the palace of purposeful plans and prayerful persistence.
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Prayer Purpose Success Weakness World
We are more than what we do much more than what we accomplish far more than what we possess.
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Accomplishment Worth
Three keys to more abundant living: caring about others, daring for others, sharing with others.
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Care Daring Generosity Live
Commend while others are criticizing, persist while others are quitting.
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Persistence Praise Quit
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.
WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD

Learning Thinking

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