Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
B. C. FORBESA word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world.
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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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An idea, like a machine, must have power applied to it before it can accomplish anything.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.
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Time mends all, ends all things earthly.
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Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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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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In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina.
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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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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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The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
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