Ericksens and their Half Dozen: Perserverance

Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Perserverance

As I have watched my children each in the two year old stage and noticably my last one there now I have had something hit me. Children are determined. They don't give up, no matter how many times they fall when learning to walk, or crawl, roll over or even talk. They just keep going. When is it that most of us loose this quality of perserverance? One could only imagine what the world would be like if people maintained that courage and confidence that we all once owned. Where does it come from and why does it end? Just one of those things I hope to perserve in my children and adopt in myself.

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I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."

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"Governement big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have. The course of history shows us that as a government grows, liberty decreases."

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."

"The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations."

Thomas Jefferson (It's quite evident that I relish in his brilliance.)

"Gratitude is the beginning of civilty, of decency and goodness, of a recognition that we cannot afford to be arrogant. We should walk with the knowledge that we will need help every step of the way."

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"Civilty carries with it the essence of courtesy, politeness, and consideration of others. All of the education and accomplishments in the world will not count for much unless they are accompanied by marks of gentility, of respect for others, of going the extra mile."

"In leadership, in standing for principle, there is loneliness. But men and women of integrity must live with their convictions. Unless they do so, they are miserable."
Gordon B. Hinckley-Standing for Something