The generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
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It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.
Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.
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The reason angels can fly is because they take themselves lightly.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.
Faith in yourself matters.
None of us knows what might happen even the next minute, yet still we go forward. Because we trust. Because we have Faith.
Do not hide your faith and your beliefs under a bushel basket, especially in this world that seems to have gone mad with political correctness.
Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
Realizing the Divine as Truth will save you hours of work in research in any field. You will be led to the right book or the right place or the right person without loss of time, or the necessary information will come to you in some other way.
As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.
Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.
The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow eating agony of a lie is never lost.
Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.
And then she understood the devilish cunning of the enemies’ plan. By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger.
When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?
Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
If you want to be successful, you must respect one rule: never lie to yourself.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
Those are most desirous of honor and glory who cry out the loudest of its abuse and the vanity of the world.
Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
