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1– Joseph Addison, 3 Elements of Happiness
2– Douglas Bader, Handicaps
3– Charles A. Beard, Man's Purpose
4– John Bogle , Investing
5– Bertolt Brecht, Initiative
6– Robert Browning , Making the Effort
7– Giordano Bruno, Conviction
8– Edmund Burke, Doing the Right Thing
9– Albert Camus, Hope
10– Thomas Carlyle, Making a Difference
11– Dale Carnegie, Showing Appreciation
12– Winston Churchill, Courage and Listening
13– Marcus Tullius Cicero, Suspicions
14– Arthur Compton, Advantages of Modern Life
15– Kevin Costner, Staying True to Yourself
16– Bette Davis, Creativity and Money
17– Jefferson Davis, Subservience and Pride
18– Charles Dickens, The Ends Don't Justify the Means
19– George Eliot, Regrets
20– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Actions Speak Louder Than Words
21– Epictetus, Becoming Your Best Self
22– Malcolm Forbes, Character
23– Harrison Ford, Success and Individuality
24– Benjamin Franklin, Self-esteem vs. Popularity
25– Thomas Fuller, Hope
26– Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Happiness and Harmony
27– Romain Gary, Humor and Dignity
28– Douglas Haig, No Surrender
29– Ernest Hemingway, Pressure
30– Victor Hugo, Obscure Struggles
31– Zora Neale Hurston, Making the Effort
32– Washington Irving, Women and Adversity
33– William James, Attitude
34– Thomas Jefferson, Style Vs Principle
35– Helen Keller, Changing the World
36– Robert F. Kennedy, Effort
37– Martin Luther King, Jr., Pride in Work
38– Charles Kingsley, Value of Work
39– Abraham Lincoln, Daily Life
40– Vince Lombardi, Resilience
41– George Leigh Mallory, Challenge
42– Abraham Maslow, Fulfillment Through Work
43– David McKay, Challenge
44– Friedrich Nietzsche, Self-Respect
45– Louis Nizer, Religion
46– Thomas Paine, Profiting from Adversity
47– Louis Pasteur, Ideals
48– Alexander Pope, Admitting Mistakes
49– Christopher Reeve, Dreams
50– Eleanor Roosevelt, Confronting Fear
51– Franklin D. Roosevelt, Happiness and Achievement
52– Theodore Roosevelt, No Excuses
53– E. Merrill Root, Work and Happiness
54– John Ruskin, Learning from Others
55– George Santayana, Lovers and Philosophers
56– William Shakespeare, Be Yourself
57– George Bernard Shaw, Creating Opportunity
58– John Steinbeck, Leadership
59– Robert Louis Stevenson, Potential
60– Thomas Szasz, Finding Yourself
61– Leo Tolstoy, What is Art?
62– Anthony Trollope, Against the Odds
63– Wang Yang-ming, Mistakes
64– Booker T. Washington, Rising Above Hatred
65– Hugh White, Focus on the Future
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Value of Work
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"Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle never know." |
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Charles Kingsley (1819 - 1875), English Novelist and Clergyman |
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Kingsley was a leader in the Christian Socialism and Chartism movements, which attempted to apply Christian ethics to industrialism by, among other things, encouraging cooperation among workers and charity from the wealthy. The Charter movement helped lead to universal male suffrage and the secret ballot, although Kingsley did not advocate the political process as the primary means of achieving social change. Kingsley was one of the first in the church to support Darwin’s theories of evolution, and to seek reconciliation between traditional religious beliefs and the new knowledge being developed by scientists. He was also prescient in advocating progressive measures like adult education and improved sanitation.
Kingsley’s social novels ("Yeast" in 1848 and "Alton Locke" in 1850) show his sympathy for the downtrodden and the poor. He used his very popular historic novels, such as "Hypatia" (1853), "Westward Ho!" (1855), and "Hereward the Wake" (1866) to further his opposition to Roman Catholicism. He also wrote a popular book for children, "The Water-Babies" (1863).
Like so many prominent men of his time, Kingsley was the son of a clergyman. He grew up in the country, where he studied nature and geology. After graduating from Cambridge he became a parish priest in Eversley. He became chaplain to Queen Victoria in 1859, served as professor of modern history at Cambridge from 1860-1869, and became canon of Westminster in 1873.
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