If I had given you any parting advice it would, I think, all have been comprised in this one sentence: to live up always to the best and highest you know.
Hannah Whitall Smith advised living up always to the best and highest you know. A concise exhortation to authentic Christian integrity.
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I do the very best I know how—the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out r…
— Abraham Lincoln
Hold yourself to a higher standard than anybody else expects of you.
— Henry Ward Beecher
TRUE worth is in being, not seeming— In doing each day that goes by Some little good—not in the dreaming Of great things…
— Unknown
It's a funny thing about life: If you refuse to accept anything but the very best, you will often get it.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The program of an elementary school graduation exercise con- cluded with a rendering of the hymn “Amazing Grace” by one …
True excellence is rarely found; even more rarely is it cherished.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
