William Arthur Ward Quotes

Today's patience can transform yesterday's discouragements into tomorrow's discoveries. Today's purposes can turn yesterday's defeats into tomorrow's determination.

William Arthur Ward

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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.

Malcolm Mclaren
- People
- Failure
- Plant
There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

Ramez Naam
- Action
- Worry
- Optimism
There are over a million people running around the United States that were born to parents just on Match.com alone, to say nothing of the other properties we run, so that's a million lives that our company just had a little to do with in bringing their parents together.

Sam Yagan
- People
- Together
- Parents
Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.

Caitlyn Jenner
- People
- World
- Day
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

N. T. Wright
- World
- Death
- Christian
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Igor Stravinsky
- Great
- Art
- Steal