Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
B. C. FORBESMadame 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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Acting without thinking is like shooting without aiming.
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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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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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If you do the best and the most you can today, don’t worry about tomorrow.
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Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.
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A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.
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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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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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We must learn that to enjoy happiness we must conscientiously and continuously seek to spread happiness. Selfishness is suicidal to happiness.
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The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
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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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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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…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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He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.
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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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