| Subject |
Quote |
| A FRIEND IS... |
Someone has said
"A friend is a person who is willing to take me the
way I am". Accepting this as one definition of the
word, may I quickly suggest that we are something less
than a real friend if we leave a person the same way we
find him.
No greater reward can come to any of us as we serve than
a sincere "thank you for being my friend".
When those who need assistance find their way back through
and with us, it is friendship in action. When the weak
are made strong and the strong are made stronger through
our lives, friendship is real.
If a man can be judged by his friends, he can also be
measured by their heights. Yes, a friend is a person who
is willing to take me the way I am but who is willing
to leave me better than he found me.
- Elder Marvin J. Ashton
Conference Report Oct. 1972 |
| A great idea |
What is the greatest
idea that you are capable of thinking? What is the most
worthwhile good to be done? What actually would make our
lives most profitable and happy? -Sterling Sill
What would be "it" for you if you could afford
it and had time? What kind of causes would be important
to you?
CHOOSE:
The pain of DISCIPLINE or the agony of REGRET
What are you going to do with the rest of your life? Wouid
I trade my life for my goal? |
| Addiction - |
Addiction - of
any kind, to any thing- is one of the greatest potential
threats to our freedom. Regarding the deuil's goal of
twisting, exaggerating, and perverting normal human pleasure
to his own end, C.S. Lewis wrote: "An ever increasing
craving for an ever diminishing pleasure is the formula...to
get the man's soul and give him nothing in return" |
| Agency |
Man does not simply
exist, but always decides what his existence will be,
what he will become in the next moment
- Viktor Frankl |
| An institution |
An institution
is the lengthened shadow of one man. - Emerson |
| ANOTHER SHOT AT
LIFE |
"There would
have been more I love you's... more I'm sorry's... more
I'm listening's... But mostly, given another shot at life,
I would seize every minute of it... look at it and really
see it... try it on... live it... exhaust it... and never
give a minute back until there was nothing left of it."
- Erma Bombeck |
| Approval |
Desire for approval
and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to
be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent
than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to
an excessively egotistic psychological adjustment, which
may become injurious for the individual and for the community.
- Einstein |
| Are you concerned |
Are you more concerned
about your past or your future ? |
| ATTITUDE : |
Promise yourself
to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of
mind. Talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person
you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is
somthing in them. To look at the sunny side of everything
and make your optimism come true. To think only of the
best, to work only for the best and expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others
as you are about your own. To forget the mistakes of the
past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every
living creature you meet a smile. To give so much time
to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to
criticize others. To be too large for worry, too noble
for anger, too strong for fear and too happy to permit
the presence of trouble.
- Christian Larson |
| BE ON FIRE |
"Be on fire
for something. Pour yourself out, and you will never lose
energy and vitality in so doing. You only lose energy
when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored
and therefore tired doing nothing. You don't have to be
tired. Get interested in something. Get absolutely enthralled
in something. Throw yourself into it with abandon. Get
out of yourself. Be somebody. Do something. Don't sit
around moaning about things. The man who is doing something
isn't tired. If you're not getting into good causes, no
wonder your tired. You're disintegrating. You're deteriorating.
You're dying on the vine. The more you lose yourself in
something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will
have!"
- Norman Vincent Peale |
| Be the Best |
"Everyone
knows on any given day that there are energies slumbering
in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth....
Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake.
Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making
use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical
resources.... Stating the thing broadly, the human individual
thus lives far within his limits; he possesses powers
of various sorts he habitually fails to use.
It is evident that our organism has stored-up reserves
of energy that are ordinarily not called upon--deeper
and deeper strata of explosible material, ready for use
by anyone who probes so deep."
-William James
What do you want to do with your life? Why not really
be somebody? Why not be the best in Nikken? When you have
the right attitude of mind and work hard, you will succeed. |
| BUILD THE IMAGE |
Start right where
you are--build the image of what you want and then act
as if you have already recieved it. "Act like the
person you want to become, for before you can do something,
you first must be something."
- Goethe |
| Commitment |
Commitment is
what transforms a promise into reality.
It is the words that speak boldly of your intentions.
And the actions which speak louder than the words.
It is making the time when there is none. Coming through
time after time after time, year after year after year.
Commitment is the stuff character is made of; the power
to change the face of things.
It is the daily triumph of integrity over skepticism. |
| COMMITTMENT |
Until one is committed,
there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back. Always ineffectiveness.
Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there
is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills
countless ideas and splendid plans - that the moment that
one definitely commits oneself - then, Providence moves
too! All sorts of things occur to help one, that otherwise
never would have occurred. A whole stream of events issues
from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of
unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance
that no man could have dreamed would have come his way.
Are you in earnest? Seek this very minute, whatever you
can do or dream you can do, BEGIN IT! BOLDNESS HAS GENIUS,
POWER AND MAGIC IN IT! Goethe (Faust - 2nd Preamsble) |
| CONATION |
Conation is the
will to succeed, the quest for success, the attitude that
"to stop me you'll have to kill me," that elusive
"fire in the belly" that manifests itself in
drive, enthusiasm, excitement, and single-mindedness in
pursuit of a goal!!!
- John McCormack |
| CONSEQUENCE |
While we are free
to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences
of those actions. Consequences are governed by natural
law... We can decide to step in front of a fast-moving
train, but we cannot decide what will happen when the
train hits us.
- Stephen Covey |
| Conviction |
Conviction is
worthless unless it is converted into conduct - Carlyle |
| Corporate America |
Today, it's all
but insane to depend on your employer for security. In
the words of futurist Watts Wacker: "You're either
an owner or a temp. You need to continually prove your
value if you expect to have your contract renewed. The
organization gave up on you (and every other employee)
more than a decade ago. It's time you gave up on it." |
| DECISIONS! |
Do I want it ?
Will it move me toward my goals ?
Is this in harmony with God's laws ?
Would it violate the rights of others ? |
| Desire |
Nothing stops
the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply
a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening
of his powers of accomplishment
- Eric Butterworth |
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