If You Are Wise
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If You Are Wise
by William Arthur Ward
If you are wise, you will forget yourself into greatness.
Forget your rights, but remember your responsibilities.
Forget your inconveniences, but remember your blessings.
Forget your own accomplishments, but remember your debts to others.
Forget your privileges, but remember your obligations.
Follow the examples of Florence Nightingale, of Albert Schweitzer,
of Abraham Lincoln,
of Tom Dooley, and forget yourself into greatness.
If you are wise, you will empty yourself into adventure.
Remember the words of General Douglas MacArthur: “There is no security on this
earth. There is only opportunity.”
Empty your days of the search for security; fill them with a passion for service.
Empty your hours of the ambition for recognition; fill them with the aspiration
for achievement.
Empty your moments of the need for entertainment; fill them with the quest for creativity.
If you are wise, you will lose yourself into immortality.
Lose your cynicism. Lose your doubts. Lose your fears. Lose your anxiety.
Lose your unbelief.
Remember these truths: A person must soon forget himself to be long remembered.
He must empty himself in order to discover a fuller self. He must lose himself to
find himself.
Forget yourself into greatness. Empty yourself into adventure. Lose yourself
into immortality.
William Arthur Ward also spoke these words of timeless inspiration:
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it.
If you can dream it, you can become it.