From the Archives: How Far You Go in Life
Depends upon your being tender with the young...
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KISWAHILI
“Umbali utakaotembelea maishani unategemea kuwa kwako mwororo pamoja na vijana, kuwa na huruma pamoja na wazee, kuwa na upole pamoja na wale wanaojitahidi kupata mafanikio, na kuwa na usubiri pamoja na wanyonge na wale wanafanya makosa. [Maana] siku moja maishani, utakuwa umekuwa haya yote.”
- Walter Scott, aliyefahamika kwa jina la Lloyd Shearer, gazeti la Parade (1973)*
ENGLISH TRANSLATION
“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. [Because] someday in life, you will have been all of these.”
- Walter Scott, pen name of Lloyd Shearer, Parade magazine (1973)*
Chanzo (source): Shearer, Lloyd. "Resolutions" was printed on the cover of Parade magazine (a Sunday newspaper supplement from Parade Publications, Inc., New York); the copyright notice at bottom names “Walter Scott,” the pen name of Lloyd Shearer. This Parade magazine was included in the December 30, 1973 The Sun-Telegram: Serving the Inland Empire (The San Bernardino County Sun). Image retrieved on May 30, 2023 from https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS19731230.1.71.
Also investigated, and concluded to be Lloyd Shearer, at https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/12/22/tender/#f+10311+1+6.
*This quote has, in recent decades, been attributed to George Washington Carver; however, this translator has been unable to find an original source granting that attribution.
*ENGLISH TRANSLATION: *Nukuu hii, katika miongo ya karibuni, imehusishwa kwa George Washington Carver; hata hivyo, mtafsiri huyu ameshindwa kupata chanzo chenye asili kinachoweza kutoa sifa hiyo.