Who said resolve to be tender with the young

Love is the most enriching ingredient of life. QI believes Shearer assembled the resolutions and should be credited with crafting the full expression listed in bold. QI also notes that some sub-phrases have been employed by other writers in the past. An example of a sub-phrase that was already in circulation was printed in several newspapers in My interest is in the welfare of the community. I ease the way of the cripple.

I am compassionate of the aged. My exultation is in the strength of mankind. I teach. I lead. I serve. On January 11, a newspaper columnist in Lubbock, Texas noticed the resolutions and reprinted the set with the following introductory words acknowledging Walter Scott: 3. Since the New Year has just begun and most of us have already smudged our resolutions, we thought a look at another set might be in order.

Credited to one Walter Scott, here they are:. Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Popular Categories. Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: Atalina Wright, Unbound.

Diane Arbus. Nathaniel Branden. Mackie Burt, Above. Billy Graham, Billy Graham in Quotes. Michael Bassey Johnson. Quote Investigator says that on December 30, the front page of Parade included the following:. Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these. The closest I can think of is this :. Which five? Whatever I do, for good or for evil, to that will I fall heir.

The purpose here is less to do with compassion than it is to do with recalling the precariousness of life in an attempt to remind us to take responsibility for what we do in the brief time we have here. These four qualities embrace: kindness metta , compassion karuna , joyful appreciation of the skillful mudita , and equanimity upekkha. In conclusion, based on current evidence QI would ascribe the saying to Lloyd Shearer. Sinek defines leadership NOT as being most in charge but in taking care of those in our charge.

We can choose to continue to see our business as products, sales targets, games, profits, etc. But take a minute and look around you. What do you see?