Take the high road

Posted on April 2, 2012 by David

Grover Cleveland (1837-1908)

I received a phone call the other day from a very good friend, someone possessing a good moral code. He was presented with a situation at work in which he was being asked to make a choice between doing the right thing and doing something . . . well . . . not right.

We are faced with this dilemma daily. And we have a choice of doing what’s right or doing what’s not right.

How you react shows the depth of your character, especially when no one is looking.

“It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.”
Grover Cleveland, 22nd President of the United States (1885-1889)

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My colors will be clear

Posted on April 1, 2012 by David

My future is secure

“I won’t look back, let up, slow down, back away, or be still. My past is redeemed, my present makes sense and my future is secure.”

-Extreme Devotion, Voice of the Martyrs

 

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Got a plan for what’s next?

Posted on March 30, 2012 by David

Chester A. Arthur (1829-1886)

When this project, job, assignment, adventure is over, what’s next?

Most of our jobs, what we get paid for, are temporary. They may take 30 years to run their full course. But they will eventually end due to the job running out or we run out of usefulness.

By acquiring new skills and honing the old ones, we can keep ourselves useful long into the future.

“Well, there doesn’t seem to be anything else for an ex-president to do but go into the country and raise big pumpkins.”
Chester A. Arthur, 21st President of the United States (1881-1885)

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Do it anyway

Posted on March 29, 2012 by David

Please pardon the interruption in the presidential series.

Do it Anyway

Some of you are familiar with this poem. Here are some thoughts to get your midweek pointed in the right direction.

People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.

If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough;
Give the world the best you’ve got anyway.

You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and your God;
It was never between you and them anyway.

“The Paradoxical Commandments”
Dr. Kent M. Keith

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Some things just go together

Posted on March 27, 2012 by David

James A. Garfield (1831-1881)

Salt and Pepper.

Minnie and Mickey

Simon and Garfunkel.

Honesty and integrity.

“Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.”
James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States (1881)

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