Principles If your cause is just, if your principles are pure, and if your conduct is prudent, you need not fear the multitude of opposing hosts. (John Witherspoon, signer of the Declaration of Independence) Almost anything you say or try to do...
Look Ahead Don’t look back, you’ll miss the road ahead. (Chris Suitt, pastor) As a mountain-biker, Suitt learned that “where your eyes go, so goes your front wheel. The bike will go where you’re looking . . . So keep your eyes...
Choices Our parents bring us into the world, but in the end, we are responsible for what we become. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American writer) We inherit a lot from our parents, of course: physical attributes and personality characteristics, no...
Learning Some [people] not only have closed their minds to new truth, but they sit on the lid. (Dale Turner, author) He also said, “The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. . . Those who believe they have ‘arrived’ believe they have...
Tomorrow The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. (Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd U.S. President) Most people have high hopes for tomorrow. Little Orphan Annie sang, “The sun’ll come out… Tomorrow so ya...
Never Give Up. It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up. (Babe Ruth, early baseball star) No doubt, Ruth played with a lot of good athletes, some of whom made it big in sports and others who faded rather quickly. His statement highlights one...
Diversity Give others freedom to be themselves. Appreciate the differences between their ways and yours. (Jennifer Chen, freelance writer) Most of us like to be around people like us—similar habits, dress, tastes, etc. We sometimes find it...
Teamwork Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story. (Casey Stengel, late professional baseball manager) Stengel was noted for his malapropisms like “All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your...
Pressing On I may not be there yet, but I’m closer than I was yesterday. (Quoted by Dan O’Deens, cross-cultural worker) We sometimes want to give up because we haven’t seemed to make much progress. We’re so short of our goal that we think we...
Opportunity No great man ever complains of want of opportunities. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19th century essayist)) In fact, F. Scott Fitzgerald said, “Our lives are defined by opportunities—even the ones we miss.” Sometimes we’re frozen in waiting...
Abundance The more men have, the more perplexity they have with it. (Matthew Henry, 17th-18th century Bible commentator) Henry continued, “It is the folly of most men, to mind and pursue that which is for the body and for time only, more than...
Advice There is a fountain of youth. It’s your mind. When you learn to tap this resource, you’ll truly have defeated age. (Sophia Loren, actress) Men have looked for the fountain of youth in vain, but Loren’s observation is helpful. We can stay...
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