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Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness

The Living Hour

Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Self-improvement

3.8 • 799 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2024

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Listen to episode 877 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: The Quality that Makes or Breaks You. Edited and adapted from The Making of the Man by Edward Ward Carmack.

Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Trust me, my friends; there is one person whose honest good opinion is worth more to your peace of mind than all the world. That person is yourself. So, while you are striving honorably to win and to retain the good opinion of all good people, remember, after all, that your reputation is only what others think you to be. Your character is what God knows you to be. And remember that you cannot for long pass a counterfeit character for the genuine coin; and that if you have the character, you cannot for long miss the reputation.

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0:45.9	Today's reading was edited and adapted from The Making of the Man by Edward Ward Carmack, published in 1909.
1:02.8	The subject of my talk today isn't the training of your intellectual faculties for the acquisition of knowledge. I would rather impress
1:14.4	upon you that the strongest, most disciplined mind cannot itself bring you honor or happiness,
1:22.8	cannot make you a good and useful citizen, or entitle you to the respect of others.
1:30.0	The great topic upon which I plan to speak is character, for the greatest women and men,
1:37.4	whose names are honored and revered by all humankind, were not great because they were mighty
1:43.8	in intellect, but because they were grand in
1:47.3	soul.
1:49.0	Let me urge you not to be satisfied to achieve a mere reputation without achieving the character
1:56.8	to sustain it, the mere love of reputation, of self-advertisement, of fame and celebrity,
2:06.6	is one of the deadliest forms of vanity that ever cursed humanity. Such vanity has never yet
2:13.6	brought real happiness to anyone, but it has brought woe to many.
2:20.0	I do not undervalue reputation for its own sake. There never was a good woman or man who was
2:27.1	indifferent to the opinions of other good people. But the main thing, so far as your own peace and happiness are concerned, is what
2:37.8	you honestly think of yourself when you go to bed at night. You can mislead others,
2:44.7	and thereby receive the hollow and transient pleasure of their praise, but when you have retired to your bedroom and turned out the lights,
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