…the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation’s destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.
B. C. FORBESIf you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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Bragging often precedes begging.
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The Bible says, ‘Where there is no vision, the people perish.’ Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
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If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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To make headway, improve your head.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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Some people are so methodical that that is all they are or ever will be.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.
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The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and chiselingand scraping and polishing.
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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.
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The fellow who isn’t fired with enthusiasm is apt to be fired.
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