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Quote to Ponder ~Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“Trust God, and be not afraid, or else you will plague yourself.” ~Charles Haddon Spurgeon Continue reading
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Quote to Ponder ~Dag Hammarskjold
“You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without losing your sensitivity of mind. He who wants to keep his garden tidy doesn’t reserve a plot for weeds.” ~Dag Hammarskjold Continue reading
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Presidents Day
Happy Presidents Day! “I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go.” ~Abraham Lincoln Continue reading
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Quote to Ponder ~C.S. Lewis
“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man…It is the comparison that makes you proud; the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition has gone, pride has gone.” ~C.S. Lewis Continue reading
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The Vital 3 Feet to Achievement
The Vital 3 Feet to Achievement ~Art of Manliness | Repost Art of Manliness’ note: The following selection on “The Vital Three Feet to Achievement” comes from The Technique of Building Personal Leadership (1944) by Donald A. Laird. It has been condensed from the original chapter. For many years I have kept a magic rule… Continue reading
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Quote to Ponder ~Mary Brown
“I’ll go where you want me to go, dear Lord, o’er mountain or plain or sea. I’ll say what you want me to say, dear Lord, I’ll be what you want me to be.” ~Mary Brown Continue reading
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Twain Publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn On this day in 1885, Mark Twain publishes his famous–and famously controversial–novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain (the pen name of Samuel Clemens) first introduced Huck Finn as the best friend of Tom Sawyer, hero of his tremendously successful novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). Though… Continue reading
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Quote to Ponder ~Goethe
“Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can be and should be and will become as he can and should be.“~Goethe Continue reading
