Character and Conduct – 5 March – Doing our Best
IT is not the quantity of our work that He regards, but the quality of it. He is less anxious that we should fulfil our task – for He can make up for our deficiencies – than that we should do our best; for what He desires is the improvement of our characters, and that requires the co-operation of our own wills with His.
Life Here and Hereafter, Canon MacCoLL
EXPERIENCE shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.
CHARLES BUXTON
LIFE is too short to waste…
‘Twill soon be dark;
Up! mind thine own aim, and
God speed the mark!
EMERSON
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These quotes are from ‘Character and Conduct’ A selection of helpful thoughts from various authors arranged for daily reading.
Collected by Constance M Whishaw and first published in 1905 as a follow up to her volume of Daily Readings for members of the Being and Doing Guild who asked for an additional volume
In her preface Whishaw writes:
‘This collection of noble thoughts expressed by men and women of past and present ages who have endeavoured to leave the world a little better than they found it.’
It is my hope in publishing them here readers may be inspired to imitate the example of the authors.
Suffolk Vicar 