Gifted Hands 20th Anniversary Edition

Some people are born to work, and others are pushed into it by their moms

It’s not what you know but the kind of job you do that makes the difference.

Proverbs 16:32 impressed me the most: “He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city” (RSV).

that the best we can do is accept our limitations and adjust to them.

We don’t always get what we want out of life.”

I comforted myself by saying, “They’re just a bunch of buffoons. If this is how they get their enjoyment, they can go ahead, but I’m not going to play their silly game. I’m going to be successful, and one day I’ll show all of them.”

Abraham Lincoln once said, “All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my mother.”

“You’re the captain of your ship”

If things go bad for you —
And make you a bit ashamed,
Often you will find out that
You have yourself to blame …

Swiftly we ran to mischief
And then the bad luck came.
Why do we fault others?
We have ourselves to blame …

Whatever happens to us,
Here are the words to say,
“Had it not been for so-and-so
Things wouldn’t have gone that way.”

And if you are short of friends,
I’ll tell you what to do —
Make an examination,
You’ll find that fault’s in you …

You’re the captain of your ship,
So agree with the same —
If you travel downward,
You have yourself to blame.

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