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Thursday, June 1, 2006 - 11:15.  Updated on Monday, October 6, 2014 - 14:58.

'Etita,

'Oku 'ikai ha me'a fo'ou ia ke vahevahe atu mo e kau memipa 'oe PSA he kuo nau 'osi kotoa pe mei he ngaahi mala'e ako kehe kehe. Ko e okooko pe 'eni ia mei he kau poto 'oe ngaahi kuonga 'oku ha atu 'i lalo, ko e fakamanatu pe na'a toe foki e manatu 'a e tu'unga matu'a' PSA ki he taimi na'a nau feinga ai ki he fekumi faka'atamai ne nau 'ikuna.

1. Often we live side by side but not heart to heart.

2. Getting along well with other people is still the world's most needed skill. With it . . . there is no limit to what a person can do. We need people; we need the cooperation of others. There is very little that we can do alone.

3. When you help someone up a hill, you are a little nearer the top yourself.

4. We must go on until we are perfect, loving our neighbor more than we love ourselves. It is folly in the extreme for persons to say that they love God when they do not love their brethren.

5. We look forward to the time when the power of love will replace the love of power. Then will our country know the blessings of peace.

6. When ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God".

7. No one can reach everybody, but everybody can be reached by somebody.

8. What a tragedy it is when our hearts become incapable of appreciating beauty and righteousness. How fortunate they are who can fully serve God, love truth, and help to build up the establishment. Don't we wish that we could feel a genuine patriotism for our great country and be loyal to it under all circumstances?

9. When we come to understand not only who we are but who we have always been and therefore who we may become the choice between following Christ or embracing the world is really no choice at all.

10. A man never shows his own character so plainly as by his manner of portraying another's.

11. Character is what one is; reputation is what one has done.

12. Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know; it means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

13. The ultimate aim of education is the training of character.

14. Whom, then, do I call educated? First, those who control circumstances instead of being mastered by them; those who meet all occasions manfully and act in accordance with intelligent thinking; those who are honorable in all dealings, who treat good-naturedly persons and things that are disagreeable; and furthermore, those who hold their pleasures under control and are not overcome by misfortune; finally, those who are not spoiled by success.

15. A great mind is one that is neither ancient nor modern; it is neither ashamed of the old nor afraid of the new. It thinks neither in terms of old traditions nor in terms of new fashions. It is only concerned with the true and the workable.

16. The three C's of failure: Criticism, Condemnation, and Complaining.

17. The three C's of success: Compassion, Courage, and Commitment.

18. An educated man is not one whose memory is trained to carry a few dates in history. He is one who can accomplish things. A man who cannot think is not an educated man, however many college degrees he may have acquired. Thinking is the hardest work anyone can do, which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers.

19. The past is behind; learn from it. The future is before us; prepare for it.

20. Neither wealth, nor fame, nor any other instrument of power can ever be more reliable in assuring our security and peace of mind than the knowledge of having inspired gratitude in a great many people.

21. Education must begin with the teacher. Someone once said that the teacher is the "backbone" of our nation. I would prefer to say that the teacher is the living heart of the nation.

22. Keep your face turned always toward the sunlight, and the shadows will fall behind you.

23. Don't let life discourage you. Everyone who got where he is, had to begin where he was.

24. Do your job, no matter how humble it may be, with the best efforts you can give.

25. Those who forget the past will tend to repeat it, with all its attendant sorrows.

'Ofa pe 'oku 'aonga atu ki he feinga kotoa pe 'oku mou fai lolotonga hono feinga'i ke ma'u e 60% 70% 80%.

'Ofa atu

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