You have no idea how big the other fellow’s troubles are.
B. C. FORBESTemporary release from work, through vacations, becomes more welcome, more pleasurable, even more necessary, as we grow older.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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…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.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.
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Justice must be blind to the hardness or softness of a man’s hands, as well as to the leanness or fatness of his pocketbook
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A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.
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There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.
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The men who have done big things are those who were not afraid to attempt big things, who were not afraid to risk failure in order to gain success.
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Success is sweetest to one who has known failure.
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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?
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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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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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Cheerfulness is among the most laudable virtues. It gains you the good will and friendship of others. It blesses those who practice it and those upon whom it is bestowed.
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