8 Quotes & Sayings By Mark Rutherford

Mark Rutherford's life is a journey from the slums of Kingston to the halls of power in North Carolina. He lives in one of North Carolina's most prosperous neighborhoods, where he has built a successful career in business, politics and public service. Mark serves as president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Rutherford Global, Inc., publisher of The Rutherford Report, a nationally syndicated political opinion column. He has served in leadership positions with all three branches of government; he served as the Republican National Committeeman from North Carolina, the second African-American to do so.

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The demand is for certainty is a sign of weakness. Mark Rutherford
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The successful man is he who when he sees that no further certainty is attainable promptly decides on the most probable side as if he were completely sure it was right. Mark Rutherford
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It should be part of our private ritual to devote a quarter of an hour every day to the enumeration of the good qualities of our friends. When we are not active we fall back idly upon defects even of those whom we most love. Mark Rutherford
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Most of us have no real loves and no real hatreds. Blessed is love less blessed is hatred but thrice accursed is that indifference which is neither one nor the other. Mark Rutherford
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When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. Mark Rutherford
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The greater part of our lives is spent in dreaming over the morrow and when it comes it too is consumed in the anticipation of a brighter morrow and so the cheat is prolonged even to the grave. Mark Rutherford
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Every faculty and virtue I possess can be used as an instrument with which to worry myself. Mark Rutherford