Tag Archives: Effort

Thought For the Day: We May Explain Success Mainly By One Word and that Word Is WORK!

Posted on October 8, 2022 by alohapromisesforever

“We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting, and indefatigable work, into which the whole heart is put.” – Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)

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Thought For the Day: Socialism Proposes No Adequate Substitute For the Motive of Enlightened Selfishness That Today Is the Basis of Human Labor and Effort

Posted on October 31, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

“Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.” – William Howard Taft (1857-1930)

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Lessons of Sadie Hawkins

Posted on July 31, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Life in its myriad of dances has it’s meaning sometimes coming in multiples of delusion… Lessons of Sadie Hawkins by Michael Doyle Sock hop memories wake the school Where twists in plot are the rule All of life is filtered … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Above, All of Life, Astray, Attraction, Awake, Bread, Changing Seasons, Common Man, Connection, Costs, Dances, Days, Daze, Derision, Desperation, Directions, Distraction, Dread, Dream, Ease, Effort, Empty Rage, Eyes, Fadeaway, Feel, Filter, Growth, Ideas, Implausible, Impossible, Last, Laughter, Lessons, Life, Life Lived, Life Unfolds, Long Division, Lost Love, Memories, Morbid, Myriad, One By One, Pain, Pass Out, Passing Through, Persevere, Photograph, Phrase, Poem, Poetry, Reach, Reason, Roman Circuses, Rule, Sadie Hawkins, Sarcastic, School, Screens, Shake, Sides, Sock Hop, Song Titles, Spent, Spin, Split, Stuff Away, Subject, Symptom, Television, Themes, Time, To Live By, Try, Turn of Page, Turns, Twists In Plot, Wonder | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: I Believe In A Heavenly Father Who Is Loving and Caring and Who Rejoices In Our Every Effort To Stand Tall and Walk Toward Hiim

Posted on June 10, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“I do not believe in a God who would set up rules and commandments only to wait for us to fail so He could punish us. I believe in a Heavenly Father who is loving and caring and who rejoices … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Believe, Caring, Commandments, Dieter F Uchtdorf, Disxourage, Effort, Fail, Faith, Flee, God, Heavenly Father, Him, Keep Trying, Loving, Never Give Up, Punish, Rejoice, Rules, Set Up, Stand Tall, Stumble, Take Courage, Thought For the Day, Urge, Wait, Walk | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: There Is No Development Without Effort and Effort Means Work

Posted on April 16, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

”All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.“ – Calvin Coolidge

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The Dark Days of Great War

Posted on April 4, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

American History marches on into World War I. The Dark Days of Great War by Michael Doyle Like a thunderstorm in the darkest night The Great War descended in Europe’s sight Suddenly, it seemed that August night All of its … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Action, Aerial Bombing, Alliance, American, American History, Animus, Annihilation, August, Blight, Bolsheviks, Bugle, Capable, Casualities, Civil Liberty, Civilization, Community, Competition, Comprehend, Confrontation, Consent, Conservation, Consolidation, Coordination, Danger, Dark, Day, Death Toll, Destruction, Disloyal, Dissent, Effort, Enmity, Entanglement, Europe, Faculities, Freedom of the Seas, Gas, Germany, Great Power, Great War, Humanity, Ideals, Imperial, Incromprehensible, Instability, John Adams, Land, Liberty Bonds, Lives, Lose, Loss, Lusitania, Machine Guns, Maim, Mankind, Mass Destruction, Nerve Agents, Neutrality, Night, Opposition, Peace, Photograph, Planned, Poem, Poetry, Prevail, Production, Progressive, Propaganda, Russia, Sail, School Master, Score, Security, Shattered Lives, Shipping, Sides, Sink, Submarine, Tanks, Thanks, Thought, Thunderstorm, Toll, Top Down, Trade, Trench, Triple Alliance, Triple Entente, Verdun, War, War To End All Wars, Warfare, Wars Industry Board, Wind, Woodrow Wilson, World Security, World War I, Wound | Leave a comment

A House Divided

Posted on March 30, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

The worse war America has ever fought was the war against ourselves, the American Civil War. A House Divided by Michael Doyle Lincoln’s inaugural was an attempt at reconciliation The mystic chords of memory were bonds of affection The siege … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 1864, 1865, Abraham Lincoln, Affection, American History, Anaconda, Appomattox, Arms, Atone, Brothers, Charity, Chord, Civil War, Claim, Conciliation, Courage, Dawn, Dedicate, Depression, Disdain, Effort, Emanicipation Proclamation, Empathy, Eyes, Fold, Fort Sumter, Fortune of War, Free, General, General McClellan, Gettsyburg Address, Humanity, Humiliation, Ideals, Inaugral, Insinuation, Liberty, Linger, Malice, Memory, Mutual Respect, Nation, National, Naval Blockade, Neglect, None, North, Photography, Poem, Poetry, Prize, Proud, Provoke, Rebels, Reconciliation, Reelection, Regain, Regional, Rely, Remain, Robert E Lee, Sacred, Second Inaugural, Sentimentality, Siege, Sinner, Slavery, Slaves, South, Stack, Steadfast, Support, Textile Industry, The People, Trust, Ulysses Grant, Union, Vain, Victory, War, Winner, Won, Wounds of War | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: When A Person Has Done Their Duty To Their People and Country, They Can Rest In Peace

Posted on January 1, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

“Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Believe, Country, Death, Duty, Effort, Eternity, Inevitable, Nelson Mandela, People, Rest In Peace, Sleep, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Socialism Proposes No Adequate Substitute For the Motive of Enlightened Selfishness Which Is the Basis of All Labor, Effort, Enterprise and Activity

Posted on November 1, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Activity, Adequate, Basis, Effort, Enlightened Selfishness, Enterprise, Human Labor, Motive, Propose, Socialism, Substitute, Thought For the Day, Todaay, William Howard Taft | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Realize That True Happiness Lies Within You

Posted on September 10, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. … Continue reading →

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