Positive Saying(s) for the Month of April 2000

Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some menand women who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannotbe done.
- Russell W. Davenport

Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at  your best.
- David O. McKay

Men can be stimulated to show off their good qualities to the leader who seems to think they have good ualities.
- John Richelsen

See first that the design is wise and just; that ascertained, pursue it resolutely.
- William Shakespeare

Seek respect mainly from thyself, for it comes first from within.
- Steven H. Coogler

Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery.  But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.
- From Desiderata, found in Old Saint Paul’s Church, Baltimore,Maryland. Dated 1692.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

We come into this world crying while all around us are smiling.  May we so live that we go out of this world smiling while everybody around us is weeping.
-  Persian proverb

Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.
- William J. H. Boetcker

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
- Charles Du Bos

I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
- Captain Edward V. Rickenbacker

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.
- Benjamin Disraeli

This above all, to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
- William Shakespeare

Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
- Malcolm Forbes

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will,cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle never know.
- Charles Kingsley

The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a
predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of
plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time.
- W.J. Davison

To be pure and strong, to be honest and earnest, to be kindly and thoughtful, and in all to be true, to be manly and womanly. He can do more for others who has done most with himself.
- S.D. Gordon