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The New Year: Time To Look In the MirrorJanuary 2, 2006 Resolutions have power. To think we are able is almost to be so; to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself; earnest resolution has often seemed to have about it almost a savor of omnipotence. - Samuel Smiles But little is accomplished, because but little is vigorously attempted; because difficulties are magnified. A timorously cautious spirit, so far from acting with resolution, will never think of itself in possession of the preliminaries for acting at all. Perhaps perseverance has been the radical principle of every truly great character. - John Foster "Resolution," says John Foster, "is omnipotent." He that resolves upon any great and good end, had, by that very resolution, scaled the chief barrier to it. He will find such resolution removing difficulties, searching out or making means, giving courage to despondency, and strength for weakness, and like the star to the wise men of old, ever guiding him nearer and nearer to perfection." - Tyron Edwards You may be whatever you resolve to be. Determine to be something in the world, and you will be something. "I cannot," never accomplished anything; "I will try," has wrought wonders. - Joel Hawes Perseverance. Good resolutions are a pleasant crop to sow. The seed springs up so readily, and the blossoms open so soon with such a brave show, especially at first. But when the time of flowers has passed, what as to the fruit? - Lucas Malet Reform should be more than a test of our beliefs. . . . It need not mean abandoning our fundamental principles, but rather a re-examination of them to determine whether we are following the dead letter or the living spirit they embody. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh Learn to say "No"; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon Start with yourself. No one can honestly or hope fully to be delivered from temptation unless he has himself honestly and firmly determined to do the best he can to keep out of it. - John Ruskin Do you want to know the man to whom you have the most reason to guard yourself? Your looking glass will give you a very fair likeness of his face. - Richard Whately What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make one little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage. - Bruce Barton He who reforms himself, has done much toward reforming others; and one reason why the world is not reformed, is, because each would have others make a beginning, and never thinks of himself doing it. - Thomas Adams Reform like charity must begin at home. Once well at home, it will radiate outward, irrepressible, into all that we touch and handle, speak and work, ever kindling new light by incalculable contagion, spreading in geometric ratio, far and wide, doing only good, wherever it spreads, and not evil. - Thomas Carlyle One of lifes greatest paradoxes is that nearly everyone wants to improve his circumstances but hardly anyone wants to improve themselves. - Milton Sills Time is short. You who are letting miserable misunderstandings run on from year to year, meaning to clear them up some day; you who are keeping wretched quarrels alive because you cannot quite make up your mind that now is the day to sacrifice your pride and settle them. You who are passing men sullenly upon the street, not speaking to them out of some silly spite; you who are letting someones heart ache for a word of appreciation or sympathy, which you mean to give him someday. If you only could know and see and feel, all of a sudden, the time is short, how it would break the spell! How you would go instantly and do the thing you might never have another chance to do. - Phillips Brooks When you make a mistake, dont look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. - Hugh White. Actions have consequences. If you dont want it printed in the paper, dont do it. If you dont want to be quoted, if you dont want it repeated, dont say it. And we might add also: if you dont want it on your conscience, dont do it. If you dont want it in your life, dont do it. We still live in a world of causes and consequences. Our record is with us. If you dont want it printed, or repeated or to become a part of your record, of your life, dont do it, dont say it. - Richard L. Evans The world looks like a multiplication table or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will balances itself.. . . . You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong. . . . A man cannot speak but he judges himself. . . . Every secret is told, every wrong redressed, in silence and certainty. . . . The thief steals from himself, the swindler swindles himself. . . . Men suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it impossible for a man to cheated by anyone but himself. . . . What will you have? Quoth God; pay for and take it. . . . Thou shalt be paid exactly for what thou hast done, no more, no less. - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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