Lars Toomre

Some Personal Thoughts and Trivia

Endure

Love Needs To Be Wanted

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Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

Prominent Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist, and speaker (1813 - 1887)

Leadership Is Communicating

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Leadership is communicating the company's Vision and Mission and having the courage to follow it. Companies that endure have a noble purpose.

Founder of The American Leadership Forum

We Can Easily Learn To Endure Adversity

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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity — another man's I mean.

Celebrated American author and humorist (1835 - 1910)

Thought for Today: Just Having Fun

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Work without happiness is like a burden that you have to endure, but when you are internally happy it becomes a game, and you're just having fun.

This Great Nation Will Endure

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This great Nation will endure as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Thirty-second President of the United States (1882 - 1945)

Criticism Without Resentment

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The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

American editor, publisher and writer (1856 - 1915)

The Winner's Creed

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I know that I have the ability to achieve my definite purpose in life:
therefore I demand of myself, persistent, continuous action towards its attainment and I here and now promise to render such action.
I fully realize that no wealth or position will long endure unless it is built upon truth and justice;
therefore I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all to whom it effects.
I am succeeding by attracting to myself the forces I wish to use and the cooperation of other people.
I induce others to serve me because of my willingness to serve others.
I eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, cynicism, anger, and fear by developing a true love for all humanity,
because I know that a negative attitude towards others will never bring me success.
I cause others to believe in me because I believe in them and believe in myself.
This is my creed, my quest.
To never stop striving for the top.
To always keep moving forward.
To always be the very best I can be.
I am the power. I am the magic. I cannot be stopped. I am a winner.
I promise to always be true to myself because I am the creator and master of my universe
and I am responsible for making a positive difference in the world
and to the quality of life in it.
I live in constant and never-ending improvement.

American personal-success author, famous for book Think and Grow Rich (1883-1970)

Endure Patiently Him That Contradicts Me

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Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.

Medieval Catholic monk and probable author of The Imitation of Christ (1380 - 1471)

Difficult Things To Do

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Difficult Things To Do
To break a bad habit,
To love an enemy,
To think logically,
To admit ignorance,
To withhold judgement,
To grow old gracefully,
To persevere without haste,
To wait without impatience,
To suffer without complaint,
To know when to keep silent,
To be indifferent to ridicule,
To concentrate in the midst of strife,
To endure hatred without resentment,
To fraternize without losing individuality,
To serve without compensation, commendation, recognition.