A few thoughts for the New Year


Calvin Coolidge
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race”

(although I would disagree with him that persistence will solve the problems of the human race. The ultimate problem is sin.)

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.


Theodore Roosevelt
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.