My Promise Keepers
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“People make the excuse, ‘I did it on the spur of the moment'. That is no excuse. 'As a man thinketh so is he.' The true man appears on the spur of the moment. If we think noble thoughts we won’t be sneaks on the spur of the moment. If we think kind thoughts, we won’t say hard things on the spur of the moment. If we think honest thoughts, we won’t steal on the spur of the moment. The spur of the moment actions don’t make the man, they only reveal him in his true character. A young man rushes into danger to save someone, and we say he is now a hero. But he was always a hero. The brave act doesn’t make a hero, it only reveals him.”
Robert Laidlaw, 1912
Founder of Farmers Trading Company