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When sowing seeds
Or friendly deeds,
The less you keep
The more you reap.Speaker: Christopher BannisterPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:47 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Charity is the ability to separate the man from the things he does.
Speaker: Hyrum SmithPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:46 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I have wept in the night
For the shortness of sight
That to somebody’s need made me blind;
But I never have yet
Felt a twinge of regret
For being a little too kind.Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:46 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:45 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read.
Speaker: Mark TwainPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:44 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Six of the greatest words on earth: Control thyself – Cicero Know thyself – Socrates [Oracle of Delphi, really] Give thyself – Christ”
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He who rolls up his sleeves seldom loses his shirt.
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Edison once was asked how he accomplished so much. He said, ‘It is deceptively simple. You and I have eighteen hours in a day in which we do something. You spend that eighteen hours doing a number of unrelated things. I spend it doing just one thing, and some of my work is bound to amount to something.
Speaker: Sterling W. SillPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:43 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Unless a man undertakes more than he can possibly do, he will never do all that he can.
Speaker: Henry FordPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:42 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The highest possible reward for any man’s toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
Speaker: John RuskinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:42 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is only those who do not know how to work that do not love it. To those who do, it is better than play.
Speaker: J.H. PattersonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:40 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The joy of living comes from immersion in something that we know to be bigger, better, more enduring, and worthier than we are.
Speaker: John Mason BrownPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:39 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Make it a point to do something every day that you don’t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Speaker: Mark TwainPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:37 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I am wondering what would have happened to me if some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow workers to put forth my best efforts in my work… If my life had been made up of eight-hour days I do not believe I could have accomplished a great deal.
Speaker: Thomas EdisonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:34 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If the power to do hard work is not a talent, it is the best possible substitute for it.
Speaker: James A. GarfieldPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you have great talents, industriousness will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiencies.
Speaker: Samuel SmilesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and God gives abundantly to industry. So plow deep while the sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep.
Speaker: Benjamin FranklinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are two kinds of people: those who finish what they start and so on
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:29 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is praiseworthy even to attempt a great action.
Speaker: Francois de la RouchefoucaldPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
To be forever reaching out, to remain unsatisfied, is the key to spiritual progress.
Speaker: Arden EngebretsenPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:27 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!