If we could only make our ...

If we could only make our hands move as actively as our tongues, what wonders we could accomplish! Almost everyone loves to hear his own voice. It is so easy, too! Yet if we could say less and do more for each other's good, not alone would every home be happier, but communities would be enriched thereby. Instead of criticism by speech, to show someone a better way to do a thing would be of much greater value.
 John Wanamaker

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I learned 30 years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.
 John Wanamaker
One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
 John Wanamaker
It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.
 John Wanamaker