Quotemeal: Jun. 23rd, 1954

Wednesday, June 23, 1954

"The reason that most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first."
— Robert J. McKain

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"Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been!""
— John Greenleaf Whittier —
"If a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it."
— Edgar Watson Howe —
"It is possible to be so active in the service of Christ as to forget to love him."
— P.T. Forsyth —
"We can do nothing, we say sometimes, we can only pray. That, we feel, is a terribly precarious second-best. So long as we can fuss and work and rush about, so....."
— A. J. Gossip —

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Illustration of Robert J. McKain — "The reason that most major goals are not achieved is that we spend our time doing second things first."

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