William Makepeace Thackeray: Whatever you are, be a good one.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Source
- A Boy I Knew (Laurence Hutton's memoir of Thackeray), St. Nicholas magazine, March 1897; later in the book A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs, 1898
- Often credited to
- Often attributed to Abraham Lincoln.
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- Your natural gifts are insight into your SUPERNATURAL potential.
- You are not who you think you are. You are not who other people think you are. You are not who you think other people think you are. You are who God says you are.
- The only way strengths don't become weaknesses are if the weaknesses of our strengths are overpowered by adversity.
- No matter what tools you use to create, the true instrument is you.
- Your disposition will be suitable to that which you most frequently think on; for the soul is, as it were, tinged with the color and complexion of its own thoughts.