Benjamin Franklin lists thirteen values to nurture one's character in his Autobiography. They are:
1. TEMPERANCE. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
2. SILENCE. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
3. ORDER. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
4. RESOLUTION. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
5. FRUGALITY. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing.
6. INDUSTRY. Lose no time; be always employed in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
7. SINCERITY. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
8. JUSTICE. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
9. MODERATION. Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
10.CLEANLINESS. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation.
11.TRANQUILLITY. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
12.CHASTITY. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.
13.HUMILITY. Imitate Jesus and Socrates.
Saturday, January 09, 2010
A Thought for Today-302:
Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity - Albert Einstein
Friday, January 08, 2010
A Thought for Today-301:
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face - Eleanor Roosevelt
Thursday, January 07, 2010
A Thought for Today-300:
Circumstances do not make a man, they merely reveal him to himself - Epictetus
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Tuesday, January 05, 2010
A Thought for Today-298:
Action is power and its highest manifestation is when it is directed by knowledge - T.W.Palmer
Monday, January 04, 2010
Facts and Figures-62: "Failed Banks"
As per USA's Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's Banks Failed List, 168 banks have failed in the calendar year 2009 alone!
For details:
http://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/banklist.html
Grateful thanks to Refdesk and FDIC.
For details:
http://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/banklist.html
Grateful thanks to Refdesk and FDIC.
Sunday, January 03, 2010
A Thought for Today-296:
Judge not a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them - La Rochefoucauld
Saturday, January 02, 2010
A Thought for Today-295:
"Another fresh new year is here . . .
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!
This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest . . .
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!
I have the opportunity
Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
And sing more joyful songs!"
- William Arthur Ward
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!
This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest . . .
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!
I have the opportunity
Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
And sing more joyful songs!"
- William Arthur Ward
Friday, January 01, 2010
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