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.
B. C. FORBESA word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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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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Jealousy… is a mental cancer.
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The most profitless things to manufacture are excuses.
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I have never seen people who could do real work except under the stimulus of encouragement and enthusiasm and the approval of the people for whom they are working.
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Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one’s own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.
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There’s no such thing as a self-made man. I’ve had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you.
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Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the unworthy. Prepare yourself to grasp opportunity, and opportunity is likely to come your way. It is not so fickle, capricious and unreasoning as some complain.
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Madame Curie didn’t stumble upon radium by accident. She searched and experimented and sweated and suffered years before she found it. Success rarely is an accident.
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If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.
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No man can fight his way to the top and stay at the top without exercising the fullest measure of grit, courage, determination, resolution.
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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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