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EDIFICATION
"Do not keep the alabaster boxes of your love and tenderness sealed up until your friends are dead. Fill their lives with sweetness. Speak approving, cheering words while their ears can hear then and while their hearts can be thrilled by them." - Henry Ward Beecher

EDUCATION
"The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after." - Newton D. Baker

"Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life." - Henry L. Doherty

"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday." - Abraham Lincoln

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." - Derek Bok

EFFORT
"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration." - Thomas Edison

EGOTISM
"He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals."
- Benjamin Franklin

ENERGY
"I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." - Sherlock Holmes

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks." - Phillips Brooks

ENDURANCE
"When you get into a tight place and it seems you can’t go on, hold on, for that’s just the place and the time that the tide will turn." - Harriet Beecher Stowe

ENTHUSIASM
"Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks." - Stanley Baldwin

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence. It is no more or less than faith in action. - Henry Chester

"Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Men are nothing until they are excited." - Michel de Montaigne

"The world belongs to the energetic." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

EXAMPLE
"There is just one way to bring up a child in the way he should go, and that is to travel that way yourself."
- Abraham Lincoln

"Your actions speak so loudly, that I cannot hear what you say." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing." - Albert Schweitzer

"Don’t worry that your children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you." - Robert Fulghum

EXCELLENCE
"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way." - Booker T. Washington

"If a man is called to be a street sweeper he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.'"
- Martin Luther King Jr.

"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude." - Ralph Marston

EXCUSES
"Getting caught is the mother of invention." - Robert Byrne

EXPECTATION
"Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed." - Benjamin Franklin

EXPENSIVE WORSHIP
Flip Wilson was a popular comedian several years ago, and one of his characters was a Preacher at the “What’s Happening Now Church.” Flip did a Skit where he told about this preacher. He’d shout out:
"IF THIS CHURCH IS GOING TO SERVE GOD IT’S GOT TO GET DOWN ON ITS KNEES AND CRAWL!!!"
And the audience yelled back "Make it crawl preacher, make it crawl!
"AND ONCE THIS CHURCH HAS LEARNED TO CRAWL, IT’S GOT TO GET UP ON ITS FEET AND WALK!!!"
"Make it walk preacher, make it walk" the audience moaned.
AND ONCE THIS CHURCH HAS LEARNED TO WALK ITS GOT BEGIN TO LEARN TO RUN!!!"
"Make it run, preacher, make it run!"
"AND IN ORDER TO RUN, ITS GOT REACH DEEP DOWN INTO POCKETS AND LEARN TO GIVE!!!"
(pause) "Make it crawl preacher, make it crawl."

EXPERIENCE
"The years teach much which the days never know."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


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