Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

He was a professional member of Sigma Delta Chi American College Public Relations Association Religious Public Relations Council and Phi Delta Kappa. Also by William Arthur Ward: For This One Hour Thoughts of a Christian Optimist Prayer Is. William Arthur Ward (1921–March 30 1994) author of Fountains of Faith is one of America's most quoted writers of inspirational maxims.

More than 100 articles poems and meditations written by Ward have been publiWilliam Arthur Wardd in such magazines as Reader's Digest This Week The Upper Room Together The Christian Advocate The Adult Student The Adult Teacher The Christian Home The Phi Delta Kappan Science of Mind The Methodist Layman Sunshine and Ideals. His column Pertinent Proverbs has been featured in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and in numerous service club publications throughout the United States and abroad.