Ease And Quiet Is Not Enough

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. -Helen Keller

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Dare Mighty Things

Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. -Theodore Roosevelt

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A Satisfying Reward

There is no greater nor more satisfying reward than that which comes from discovering and developing men. The possibilities are almost unlimited. Talent, like oil, is discovered in unexpected places and in surprising quantities. -A.A. Stambaugh

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Use All Your Talent

“If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed.  If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men […]

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Nurture Your Mind

“Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.” -Benjamin Disraeli “Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world — making the most of one’s best.” -Harry Emerson Fosdick

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3 Quick Quotes

Here’s 3 quick quotes to enjoy: Ninety percent of our problems can be solved if we will but make up our minds. -Franklin D. Richards We should be painting a vastly greater mural on a vastly more spacious wall. -John Gardner It is better to be nobly remembered than nobly born. -John Ruskin Which one […]

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Toiling Upward in the Night

The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Can DO

“Can Do” will never fall down. He will always bring home the bacon. He will always keep us identified as our better self. Can Do knows his business; he keeps us at our peak of performance; he never has to be reminded or coaxed. -Sterling W. Sill

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