The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
B. C. FORBESYou have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
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Any business arrangement that is not profitable to the other fellow will in the end prove unprofitable for you. The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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Life is just an endless chain of judgements. . . . The more imperfect our judgement, the less perfect our success.
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It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.
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Enthusiasm is the electric current that keeps the engine of life going at top speed. Enthusiasm is the very propeller of progress.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
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A shady business never yields a sunny life.
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Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
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The way to make a true friend is to be one. Friendship implies loyalty, esteem, cordiality, sympathy, affection, readiness to aid, to help, to stick, to fight for, if need be. … Radiate friendship and it will return sevenfold.
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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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Honesty is the cornerstone of character.
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The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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