If Yu Are Wise

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William Arthur Ward

If you are wise, you will forget yourself into greatness.


Forget your rights, but remember your responsibilities. Forget your inconveniences, but remember your blessings. Forget your own accomplishments, but remember your debts to others. Forget your privileges, but remember your obligations. Follow the examples of Florence Nightingale, of Albert Schweitzer, of Abraham Lincoln, of Tom Dooley, and forget yourself into greatness.

If you are wise, you will empty yourself into adventure.


Remember the words of General Douglas MacArthur: "There is no security on this earth. There is only opportunity." Empty your days of the search for security; fill them with a passion for service. Empty your hours of the ambition for recognition; fill them with the aspiration for achievement. Empty your moments of the need for entertainment; fill them with the quest for creativity.

If you are wise, you will lose yourself into immortality.


Lose your cynicism. Lose your doubts. Lose your fears. Lose your anxiety. Lose your unbelief. Remember these truths: A person must soon forget himself to be long remembered. He must empty himself in order to discover a fuller self. He must lose himself to find himself. Forget yourself into greatness. Empty yourself into adventure. Lose yourself into immortality.

Integrity
Words of Champions

It cannot be bought and it cannot be measured in money. It is a prerequisite in determining the fibre and character of an individual and an organization. Integrity demands that there be no twilight zone-- something is either right or it is wrong; black or it is white. Principles may be inborn ethics or, sometimes, mandated. But integrity requires scourging moral courage, magnetized by a fervor for an ideal. The complete person is a union of unswerving integrity, pulsating energy, and rugged determination--and the greatest of these is integrity. One man with integrity is a majority. To reflect integrity is to invest trust. To possess integrity is to command respect. Integrity is found in simple issues and those complex. Its presence is critical. It demands total loyalty, a commitment to cause, a dedication to mission, an unflagging determination. Morals, Ethics, Standards, and Integrity, from these flow a torrent of values. Deeds, not words. It is clear that what you do and what you are speak with deafening impact, not what you say you are. Honesty isn't the best policy. It is the only policy: for an organization, integrity isn't a sometimes thing. It is everything.

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